What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/
Shae rented this movie last week and she enticed me to check it out tonight. Wow! That sums up at least my most general feelings. It’s such a treat to watch something on the flicker-box and walk away feeling like I actually learned something. Some very useful somethings no-less. For anyone with even the smallest curiosity towards philosophy or theology I would highly recommend it. For everyone else — I strongly recommend it. I’ve constantly heard ideas about quantum mechanics being thrown about (sometimes even at debate tournaments), but this film broke it down to a point where I could easily put my mind around it. I look forward to getting more involved in those studies on my own time now that I have at least a tiny grasp of its intent and authority.
While doing a little searching around on some of the ideas that were brought about in the film I ran across this site: http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/bleep.html. It appears to debunk several of the methods in which quantum physics was presented. I’ll have to check it out and compare them to find out anything further.
February 6th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Believe it or not, I’ve got serveral books on the topic.
The eaiset of which to stomach is Hawking’s “The Universe in a Nutshell”. Complete with illustrations.
Let me know if you want to borrow it, it’s been sitting at a friends house for close to a year now and I’d feel better if I knew someone was actually reading it.
February 14th, 2006 at 12:12 am
“The fifth is our due, Aes Sedai,” Melaine said, throwing her long hair back over her shoulder so she could work a staera across a smooth shoulder. Even heavy and damp with the steam, her hair glistened like silk. “We took no more even from the treekillers.” Her glance at Moiraine was too bland not to be significant; they knew she was Cairhienin. “Your kings and queens take as much in their taxes.”
“And when the nations turn against you?” Moiraine persisted. “In the Aiel War, the nations united turned you back. That can and will happen again, with great loss of life on both sides.”
“None of us fears death, Aes Sedai,” Amys told her, smiling gently as if explaining something to a child. “Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. Besides, only four clans crossed the Dragonwall under Janduin. Six are here already, and you say Rand al’Thor means to take all of the clans.”