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Entry: God, Science, and Telepathic Pets Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/god_science_and_telepathic_pets#234 Post contents: You might want to check our Stephen Barr's article on quantum mechanics in the March issue of First Things. Here's a salient paragraph: <I>Quantum strangeness, as it is sometimes called, has been a boon to New Age quackery. Books such as The Tao of Physics (1975) and The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979) popularized the idea that quantum theory has something to do with eastern mysticism. These books seem almost sober today when we hear of “quantum telepathy,” “quantum ESP,” and, more recently, “quantum healing,” a fad spawned by Deepak Chopra’s 1990 book of that name. There is a flood of such quantum flapdoodle (as the physicist Murray Gell-Mann called it). What, if anything, does it all mean? Amid all the flapdoodle, what are the serious philosophical ideas? And what of the many authors who claim that quantum theory has implications favorable to religious belief? Are they onto something, or have they been taken in by fuzzy thinking and New Age nonsense?</I> <I>What the Bleep Do We Know?</I> was unadulterated garbage. You might consider reading <A HREF="http://realphysics.blogspot.com/2005/04/they-dont-know-bleep.html">my review of it</A> on Real Physics. I suspect that for many viewers the most interesting thing in the film was (to put it gingerly) the fit of Ms. Matlin's wardrobe. LG Sent at: 2008 09 05