…there is something inane about chaining one’s God (whatever one’s understanding of this is) to something empirically falsifiable. We used to think the world was flat. We used to believe in a terracentric universe. We used to think Newtonian mechanics governed the cosmos. I hardly doubt that quantum physics will be the be-all and the end-all of scince, and if one hopes to validate the mystical by bringing in quantum theory, one had better be prepared to lose both in the long run. The Buddha was not talking about subatomic particles when he spoke of the nature of oneness. The subjective is not reducible to the objective.
Siona wrote a piercing review of What the #$*! Do We Know!?; I respect her insight and assessment, and I highly recommend you read the entire review.
Well, I read it. I haven’t seen the movie, but I strongly suspect from the review that it did a rather poor job explaining quantum mechanics (and perhaps mysticism as well). QM is only superficially about subatomic particles and objective reality: it is in essence a mathematical model of reality, and that model offers a startling similarity to various expressions of mystic thought.
May I suggest “God and the New Physics” by Prof. Paul Davies as a much better read on the subject than “The Tao of Physics”, which the film was apparently based upon.
Be well,
Dave H.