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The movie, "What the bleep..." is actually a recruiting film for a cult that follows the teachings of a 35000 year old warrior named Ramtha.



Ahh, kinda like the creation museum's use of science... gotcha! That would explain why the movie was so "crazy" heav and why they used Marlee Matlin so she couln't hear how crazy the script was.

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Yes, off course, but this doesn't mean there are dozens of clones in all the possible places when you aren't aware of them, right? [...] but if an object can be at several possible places in theory (since you aren't aware of where it really is), then in practice it's still just at one place... it's not secretly organizing the split second you're looking.



Welcome to the wild weird world of Quantum Mechanics!!! This is EXACTLY what it means. There are many theories to explain this, one of the most popular is the "Multiple Universe" interpretation which states that every decision we make creates another universe where every decision is made. So if you say "yes" instead of "no", there is another universe where you said "no" instead of "yes".

Another not so popular explanation is the Bohm interpretaion which talks of Hidden Variables and the idea that there is some order and determanancy to the whole process, but we just can't see it yet. This idea was refuted by the Bell Theorem -- though I never understood how-- and I think it's had some revisions in the past decades because of this.

While we have no experiements to verify the Multiple Universe nor the Bohm interpretation of QM, the idea that a particle is undefined until "the split second" you look at it is very well tested in Quantum Mechanics. The famous "One Photon Interference" experiment goes something like this: when light passes through slits, it forms an interference pattern on the other end. This pattern is a result of one lightwave interfering with another light wave (much like dropping two pebbles in water or the sound from two disjoint speakers). Now here is the weird part... we can actually fire ONE PHOTON, ONE PARTICLE OF LIGHT into the same slits... we can fire it at the center slit for example so that it doesn't touch the left and right one and see what comes out the other end... AND WE STILL GET INTERFERENCE! The explanation is that until we measure the interference pattern on the other end, the photon actually went through every slit, not just the center one, and interfered with itself. If you try to determine which slit it went through, by trying to measure it AT the slit, then the collapse occurs at that moment and there is no interference.


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