Movies about quantum physics

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are there any decent ones?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(inspired by painful forced holiday viewing of "What the Bleep do We Know")

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i watched that last christmas with family - it's totally painful but i find it interesting - but i'd heard these theories, in several forms, before

am trying to think of other quantum physics movies but can only think of time-travel movies and wormhole-featuring movies...

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

pi? Does a never-ending number have anything to do with physics?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

well the ideas are interesting for sure but they're all mangled and distorted and put in the service of a money-grubbing charlatan... all I can think of is "A Brief History of Time", which is more about Hawking (who I dislike anyway) than physics, and not quantum physics at that.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean I prefer to hear about physics from physicists and not people that charge $700 a ticket for a "How to Get Rich" seminar.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

'baise-moi'

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't think of why you'd make a movie "about" quantum physics. what are your favourite movies about thermodynamics?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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well, i see your point about that and the dubious nature of the funders of that film, the alterior motives, etc. but i guess the thing is that "physics" encompasses more than the "science of physics", and while i do want to hear about physics from physicists, i also want to hear about its interpretation by other intelligent people or see how the humanities, religion, etc overlap with physics - because the ideas of quantum physics are present outside of scientific theory - there are many areas/disciplines that grapple with similar understandings of the universe, just communicated in dif ways. (and obv, if talking film, it's made by a filmmaker not a physicist - another level of interpretation added.)
anyway

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" miniseries is maybe a good example of what I'd prefer.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

top gun is my favourite movie about thermodynamics

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

also Heat

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The Butterfly Effect!

(sorry)

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

also Heat

-- impermanent rrrobyn (apoemabouteverythin...), January 3rd, 2007. (later)

lol

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Real Genius, for the laser action

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus, What the Bleep is Seth Speaks/Carlos Castaneda dressed up in the guise of quantum physics, unless RAMTHA is some Ph.D. scientist who ignorant me has ignored.

(Secret: he isn't)

Also the CGI cells dancing to "Addicted to Love" was one of the most humiliating things I've ever watched.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Jurassic Park drop of water on Jeffy Goldblum's wrist is the master of all this and the first. I think.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Quantum theory shows up in John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness"

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

also "Repo Man"

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

QUANTUM LEAP

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought that 'what the bleep do we know' was aptly named. i guess that's all the praise i can conjure for it.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

although i turned it once they started talking about controlling ice crystals with your mind because it made me jealous of people who think they can actually do it.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a pair of friends who 100% believed that they could manipulate clouds with their minds.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

but how can you prove that they can't??/

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely some of the Star Trek movies mentions tachyons, since they offer such a convenient way of "explaining" time travel.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you specifically want films about quantum physics, or would any post-1905 physics do? If the former, there's a TV movie of Copenhagen.

Also, a film of The Oxford Murders is in production. The book's plot is a kind of middle-brow Da Vinci code, but the author has a PhD in maths and manages to tie a lot of it in to logic, etc. and some of it into quantum theory with some success. God knows how much of this will make it to the film, but the book is short and accessible, and certainly worth a read.

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The central premise of Weird Science is pretty much quantum physics, isn't it?

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

not seen it, but The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension has been bigged up by scientists for its use of quantum physics

― Slump Man (Slumpman), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The Standard Deviants have a couple discs out, but they are more basic physics than quantum. Brian Greene's Elegant Universe was done up for tv, so maybe that? Primer was about recursion and time travel, but really mumbled and hazy w/r/t actual science.

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and the Philip Pullman's Northern Lights trilogy is inspired by the Many Worlds interpretation of Quanum Theory, and bits of it are set in the Department of Physics at Oxford. You probably won't learn much by reading it though.

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't really explain my point, but Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" seems to illustrate quantum theory

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IQB7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

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