What The Bleep Do We Know Page #10

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- What question?

How far down the rabbit hole

do you want to go?

Ponder that for a while.

My name's David Albert.

Um...

I, uh, got a Ph.D.

in theoretical physics.

I studied biochemistry

at Rutgers University...

and then went to chiropractic

college...

at Life University in Atlanta,

Georgia.

My postgraduate training is

in anatomy and physiology...

neurochemistry, neurophysiology

and genetics.

I study quantum physics.

I sometimes teach it.

I have written a book on quantum physics

and many books...

explicating the meaning

of quantum physics.

After my Ph.D. from Harvard,

I went to CERN...

a European laboratory

for particle research...

and then joined faculty

at Stanford.

And my work there has been the development

of unified quantum field theories.

I have about a hundred publications

in this area, but perhaps I'm best known...

for the discovery

of supersymmetric flipped SU5...

grand unified field theory.

I make my living

as an anesthesiologist...

and every day as I put

my patients to sleep...

I kind of wonder where they go and why

they're there in the first place.

That's one of the reasons

that attracted me...

to anesthesia and

the study of consciousness.

My name is Miceal Ledwith...

and for most of my life

I was a professor of theology.

I'm Dr. Daniel Monti.

I'm a physician...

with specialty training in

psychiatry and human behavior.

I'm on the full-time faculty at

theJefferson Medical College.

I actually got very interested

in studying...

this whole topic of the brain

and spirituality...

because it had to do with the questions

I was asking since I was a child...

about reality and how we understood truth

and what was real.

As I grew up

and as I realized that...

while spirituality was,

in some senses...

a very important part

of trying to find those answers...

science also was

a very crucial part.

I was ultimately looking

for some way...

of bringing those

two forces together.

Well, my name is Candace Pert...

and I'm a professor at Georgetown

in the medical school.

Here we are actually filming

great thinkers.

Everyone in this room

is a great thinker...

now that we got 'em thinking.

That's always a trick,

isn't it?

I should make it clear that

I'm a graduate student in physics.

I'm not a full-fledged

theoretical physicist yet.

Uh, but if fortune

smiles on me...

and I continue to work like a dog on

my problem sets and exams and whatnot...

eventually what I hope

to do with this is--

is to apply fundamental

quantum theory...

to quantum information

processing.

So I decided, well, if I gave up

being department chairman...

and if I gave up all my

professional committees...

and I gave up all my government committees,

I would have a block of time...

that I could put to work.

Of course I gave up

all my power positions...

but you have

to sacrifice something.

I had to keep my day job

because my family needed to be fed.

I presume that you're asking me

how a scientist can sound this wacko...

because I must be sounding

wacko.

It's really an interesting question.

If you study science long enough...

and seriously enough

and dig deeply enough...

if you don't come out feeling

wacko about it...

you haven't understood a thing.

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