What The Bleep Do We Know Page #3

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- It never touched you.

- Right.

- And it's not solid.

This ball is mostly empty.

In fact, the universe

is mostly empty.

[ Man ] We like to think

of space as empty and matter as solid.

But in fact, there is essentially nothing

to matter whatsoever.

It's completely insubstantial.

Take a look at an atom.

We think of it as

a kind of hard ball.

Then we say,

''Oh, well, not really.

''It's this little tiny point of really

dense matter right at the center...

''surrounded by a kind of

fluffy probability cloud of electrons...

popping in and out

of existence. ''

But then it turns out that

that's not even right.

Even the nucleus,

which we think of as so dense...

pops in and out of existence

just as readily as the electrons do.

The most solid thing you can say

about all this insubstantial matter...

is that it's more like

a thought--

it's like a concentrated bit

of information.

[ Man ] What makes up things

are not more things...

but what makes up things are

ideas, concepts, information.

[ Whooshes ]

And like I said,

it never touches.

[ Reginald ]

Those electrons build up a charge...

and push the other electrons

away before they touch.

So nobody touches nothin'.

Come on. Put your stuff down.

Nobody's gonna take it.

Like I said, this is my court.

It's no problem.

[ Sighs ]

- How long has it been?

- I'll be late.

It's only in conscious experience

that it seems that we move forward in time.

In quantum theory, you can also

go backwards in time.

[ Reginald ]

You can always go back in time.

- [ Cheering ]

- [ Shutter Clicking ]

[ Buzzer Buzzes ]

[ Cheering Fades ]

What's the matter?

Remember, it's empty.

How do you know this sh*t?

I read Dr. Quantum comics. Everybody thinks

it's just kid stuff, but I know it's real.

That's how I do my magic

on the court.

Yeah, I always choose

the wonder boy first.

- He's got the weirding way.

- Well, Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it.

Everybody's doing it.

Doing it constantly,

each and every time you look.

When you ain't lookin',

it's like a wave.

When you are lookin',

it's like a particle.

When you are not looking,

there are waves of possibility.

- [ Ball Bouncing ]

- When you are looking, there

are particles of experience.

[ Man ] Aparticle,

which we think of as a solid thing...

really exists in

a so-called ''superposition, ''

a spread-out wave

of possible locations...

and it's in all of those

at once.

The instance you check on it...

it snaps intojust one

of those possible positions.

[ Man ]

Quantum superposition implies that...

a particle can be in two or more places

or states simultaneously.

And this is a very bizarre concept, and one

of the hallmarks of the quantum world.

Superheroes use superposition...

with the world being potential strips

of reality until we choose.

Heroes choose what they want--

being in many places at once, experiencing

many possibilities all at once...

and then collapsing on the one.

The question is, how far down

the rabbit hole do you wanna go?

Nice shot.

[ Man ] How can a system or an object be

in two or more states at the same time?

[ Man ] How can a system or an object be

in two or more states at the same time?

[ Man ] It's very easy--

Instead of thinking of things as things.

We all have a habit of thinking that

everything around us is already a thing...

existing without my input,

without my choice.

You have to banish

that kind of thinking.

Instead,you really

have to recognize...

that even the material world

around us--

the chairs, the tables, the rooms,

the carpet-- camera included--

all of these are nothing but

possible movements of consciousness.

And I'm choosing moment to moment

out of those movements...

to bring my actual experience

into manifestation.

This is the only radical thinking

that you need to do.

But it is so radical--

It's so difficult...

because our tendency is that the world

is already out there...

independent of my experience.

It is not. Quantum physics

has been so clear about it.

Heisenberg himself,

codiscoverer of quantum physics...

said atoms are not things,

they're only tendencies.

So, instead of thinking

of things...

you have to think

of possibilities.

They're all possibilities

of consciousness.

You now can see in numerous labs

around the United States...

objects that are large enough

to be seen by the naked eye...

and they are in

two places simultaneously.

- You can actually take a photograph of that.

- [ Shutter Clicks ]

Now, I suppose if you showed a photograph,

they'd say, ''Oh. Great.

''Here's this nice blob of colored light,

and I see there's...

''a bit of it over here and another bit--

So you've got a picture of two dots.

What's the big deal?''

You say, ''Look right in the chamber.

You can see it right there.''

''I see two things there.''

''No, no. That's not two things--

That's one thing.

It's the same thing in two places.''

I'm not sure that people's

jaw would drop about it...

because I think--

I don't think people

really believe it.

And I don't mean that people say, ''Oh, you're

lying,'' or ''Oh, the scientists are confused.''

I-I think it is so mysterious that you

can't even understand how amazing it is.

And then, furthermore,

you've seen Star Trek and whatnot.

''Beam me up, Scotty.''

So it all seems sort of...

''Oh, well, what does

that really mean?''

But you've gotta really stop and

think about what that means--

That it's the same object

and it's in two places at once.

When people tinker in the lab, and they get

angry about things, and they have lunch...

and they go home

and they lead their lives...

just as though nothing

utterly astounding is happening...

because that's how

you have to go about it--

And yet, there's this

completely amazing magic...

sitting right in front

of your eyes.

[ Man ] Quantum physics

calculates only possibilities...

but if we accept this,

then the question immediately comes...

who, what, chooses among

these possibilities...

to bring the actual event

of experience?

So we directly, immediately see

that consciousness must be involved.

The observer cannot be ignored.

[ Man ] We know what an observer does

from a point of view of quantum physics...

but we don't know

who or what the observer actually is.

Doesn't mean we haven't tried to find

an answer. We've looked.

We've gone inside of your head.

We've gone into every orifice you have...

to find something

called an observer.

And there's nobody home.

There's nobody in the brain.

There's nobody in the cortical regions

of the brain.

There's nobody in the subcortical regions

or the limbic regions of the brain.

There's nobody there

called an observer.

And yet, we all have this experience

of being something called an observer...

observing the world out there.

Is this the observer...

and which is so intricate

to understanding...

the wacky, weird world...

of quantum particles

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