Find Your Cosmic Origins

The science in What the Bleep, a lot of it was that what you perceive out there is just what you're perceiving. It's not necessarily what is. Then there was the physics that basically objects never touch. You just get closer and the electromagnetic fields around the atoms repel each other, and that's what you feel. You don't actually feel the ball hit you. Then you get into the quantum, where basically, is it a wave or is it a particle? It appears this way, but if you're not looking, it's diffuse. That electron is in many places until you observe it. There's a famous line where Fred Alan Wolf goes, it's not what's out there out there, it's what's in here in here. You think that reality is just sitting out there waiting for you to partake of it. But a lot of the science, and this is also cognitive science, is saying no, you're putting all this together in your brain, and your brain is assembling it all in a certain way based on what everyone else says. But you could put it together differently. We had a lot of that in the film to get people to say that the thing we take for reality out there is a construct of the brain. It's to back off from the idea of, I know what the world is, I know what it's like. It's to say we're living in a mystery.