Movies about quantum physics

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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

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

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