Quantum Mysticism is Stupid (Deepak Chopra, Spirit Science, Actualized.org)
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2021
- This just in! Quantum physics tells us that consciousness creates reality! The physical realm is just a mental construct! This means you can heal yourself with your mind, you can manifest your desires, and you can commune with the universe to achieve ultimate transcendence! At least that's what some would have you believe. In actuality, physics says nothing of the sort. This is all just a ridiculous narrative spewed by con men that has come to be known as quantum mysticism. Together let's identify its origin, with figures like Deepak Chopra, and trace its development over the past few decades, culminating in CZcams channels like Spirit Science and Actualized.org, which go beyond mere pseudoscience and act as literal cults. Cults are bad, don't you agree? Let's expose and disarm them together.
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Chopra : “There are no electromagnetic fields, molecules or atoms. They are all a human construct”
Me, a Chemistry Undergrad : “guess I’ll just imagine a better yield for my lab then.”
@queerdo That's what these mystics claim.
Queerdo, no, actually your comment is a perfect illustration o the problem with mystics. The OP is an ideal demonstration of how this fantastical thinking does not correlate with reality, spoken from someone who actually interfaces with the physical world for a living. Scientists do science, so they know what is incompatible with reality. Then you just come along and say "nuh uh because you don't get it", as though you have any business weighing in at all. Just stop. Get an education.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains I’ve studied astronomy, chemistry, physics, the whole deal and I can’t help but roll my eyes every time someone introduces themselves as a “Sagittarius”
@@ProfessorDaveExplains i think he's trying to make a point about philosophy, although i really don't understand WHY he's making the point lol. it's true that in philosophy and especially metaphysics there is discussion about the nature of phenomena that isn't easily observable. there's a clear line from metaphysics discussions to pseudoscience that elucidates the lack of understanding on the part of laymen about what exactly philosophers mean when they stuff like "electromagnetic fields are a human construct". to the laymen, which obviously would include scientists who have no knowledge of philosophy nor the context in which certain philosophical discussions are taking place, this can legitimately sound like "electromagnetic fields don't exist and humans made it up", but that's not necessarily what is intended nor what is being claimed.
this gets extremely clear when you go beyond metaphysics (which is why i don't like talking about metaphysics much, it's something that is super inaccessible to people unwilling or unable to entertain highfalutin theoretical ideas about the nature of reality and how we can make sense of that in the real world outside of theory) and into stuff like epistemology or even linguistics. when philosophers in these areas talk about things like constructs and the nature of reality or even of how we conceptualize physical phenomena, they're essentially laying out their philosophical position ahead of time about how we build our languages and concepts from a fundamental level. that is to say that most of these kinds of conversations are talking about something that many of us take for granted, such as how we come to use the words we do to describe physical phenomena and what that actually means in the realm of philosophy.
much of the time in philosophy contexts that you see people discussing the nature of reality or being critical of scientifically verifiable phenomena they're not actually discussing the phenomena itself, but how we arrive at the point where we can test these phenomena and the lens that we use to interpret the results. it's often a commentary ultimately on methodology, not necessarily on any given specific experiment but on how we construct meaning at all and furthermore how we communicate it to one another. because so much of this type of abstract conversation has a totally different meaning when ripped of its context, we end up seeing the terms from it horribly misused by conmen and people who don't understand what they're hearing who then repeat it inappropriately until it eventually turns into a complete mischaracterization of the arguments and what they're meant to be proving. hopefully this wasn't too droll to read because i'm not entirely sure if i'm properly communicating what i'm trying to say.
tl;dr i think the commenter was trying to make a point about how people misuse philosophy terminology and how it can easily convey the wrong message when ripped of its philosophical context, although i don't know why he was blaming scientists for that occurring lol. i mean it is true that scientists are often just as vulnerable to getting the wrong impression about certain terminology and where it comes from, but that isn't because they're wrong or dumb, it's because the arguments and concepts are being presented to them completely and totally devoid of their original contexts and effectively transformed into meaningless gobbledygook
just to be super clear by the way: saying something like "electromagnetic fields are a human construct, and so are molecules and atoms" and "i believe electromagnetic fields, atoms and molecules are observable and verifiable by science and thus real in the colloquial sense" aren't actually contradictory viewpoints. one is a commentary on epistemology and language, the other is a plain statement of their beliefs which are in line with the scientific consensus. hopefully that makes the wall of text i wrote up a little more understandable >
"your child isnt real, he becomes infinite when you are not looking"
*Breaking news* : Grown man fails object permanence.
Can confirm, looked at a kid behind me in the mirror, saw naught but the endless void
@@TiocfaidhArLa34
The Onion? sounds _juicy!_ 😋
@@gonb5434 stay woke, don't let the little demons of extraneous meta-void lull us into the false sense of security.
🤔. My child sounds real enough at this moment but she is downstairs and currently out of my line of sight. So is Leo’s “unreal disappearing infinity” something that only relates to light and not sound? 😄
Just insane
The absolute mess my child can make when I am not looking clearly disproves what Leo Gura is suggesting.
Ironic that Deepak wears glasses. Why doesn't he just believe he can see better?
Hey maybe he wants to be blind
Otherwise he wouldn't see the public and so they don't exsist
Because limitless power has limits! /s
Because glasses lend an air of inteligencia, better for grift - I mean fund raising 🤓💰
Why doesn't he just believe that he is young?
Lol how does anyone follow him unironically.
Crystal healers: "Crystals will bring you health and joy!"
Solid state physicists: "Crystals will only bring you pain..."
*in meantime, chemical engineers just staring the thousand yard stare* 😂
asbestos can change your health, and it is a crystal!!
just um not for the better
Me throwing crystals at people: "Haha!"
I'll have you know I'm deeply enjoying studying crystalline structures in my materials science topics course.
Physicist: “where the hell are the impurities in my crystal coming from!?!?”
Engineer: “Why the hell wont my crystal fully saturate with these impurities!?!?”
I strongly believe that studying how the public perceives science is a brilliant way to understand the shortcomings of our education system.
That's not a bad idea.
lack of money and comfort is also is responsible for people turning to pseudoscience and spiritualism for answers and comfort
I agree
Not the system’s fault, it’s just people who dropped out of kindergarten.
@@ghostyidk9383 no, it is the system's fault
Our philosophy teacher in high school showed us "What the Bleep do we Know" and asked us to do a PowerPoint presentation on it.
She didn't specify the length of the presentation, only the talking points: who were the people that worked on it, who were the people that talked on it and what can we learn.
Thanks to a member of our team, we found out the people working on the "documentary" were linked to a cult and we prepared an hour long presentation on why everything was bollocks and why everyone said what they said and did what they did, including when was the cult formed, why it was a cult, why and how the documentary only showed what the cult wanted and how they used the common person's misunderstanding of science against them.
To this day the best essay and presentation I've done.
I feel like there has to be more payoff to this story. Was it intended as being taken seriously, and if so, I need to know the reactions to what must have been that masterpiece of an essay.
@@jijonbreaker well, as most real stories, the payoff is not that big. It was really awesome that the other groups just praised the documentary because they thought "if the teacher showed it to us it must be good" and we were the last group to present. Our presentation lasted 1 hour 15 minutes, and our teacher still asks us to make it for their new students. After we had done our presentation, classes went as normal but the topic of that trimester was "Science, pseudoscience and philosophy".
@@owlroseproductions8876 Excellent
I now want to see the presentation.
@@tweer64 or at least just the essay
That lunatic cult leader grinning while describing the "positives" of "physical death" was absolutely chilling.
sometimes i think like that during panic attacks. if i can be like that at my worst, god knows what's going on in that brain.
That lunatic cult leader grinning while describing the "positives" of "reviving cthulhu" was absolutely chilling.
@@wj11jam78 I mean at least (compared to other gods in the verse) Cthulhu isn't a malevolent god per se, he just has no interest in humans. So while you would gain no benefit from reviving him, you wouldn't lose anything either.
@@wj11jam78I understood that reference
@@thunderspark1536
not in the game I'm referencing
I'm convinced the people who came up with quantum mystism didn't even know the definition of quantum and just used it because they thought it sounded cool.
Yep. Exactly right.
I like to draw parallels with certain sci-fi or superhero stories. It doesn't matter if we talk about how superheroes gain their power, or how incredible machines work or use energy, we went from magic to X-rays, to radioactivity and nuclear power, to DNA and mutations, and to "quantum physics" , whatever the story means by that.
Fiction stories need to explain things realisticly, but there's a point where they have to stop and say "well, it's like that, take it or leave it". If Stan Lee wanted to explain realisticly how a regular guy could get the powers of Spiderman, he wouldn't have written about Spiderman, he would have been the damn Spiderman himself.
The same mechanics work with those kinds of charlatans. They need to base their stories in some kind of reality, and what better world than the fringes of science itself with all its unknowns and multiple explanations.
@@Nico_M. yeah you're right, the explanations these pseudosciences provide resemble how science works in scifi /fantasy.
They watched to much ant man
It sounded like magic
I remember a girl telling me how she manifested the knowledge she needed for her exam at the Uni through getting into the consciousness of another person who was an expert. I said, "Wow, such awesome powers! You can easily learn whatever language, or get into a physicist's head and actually learn some quantum physics!" She went like, "Yeah, but I cannot possibly learn such things like that! That's outside my domain" I said, "So, you're telling me that you can only learn the things you already know?" and she was sooo deeply offended.
That's the case with every 'manifestation' person. I always say "Do you think manifestation is real?" if yes "Why not just manifest the lottery numbers and live a happy life?". The answer is always "Well I can't do stuff like that, only things like changing my emotions and finding lost things", or "Manifestation is about so much more than money, I use it to get true happiness" copout bullshit. Just like the "Crystals heal you, but only if you think they will."
@@rahulprakaash3350 Such as? Any quotes? Any claims? Literally anything other than just saying the guys name?
@@rahulprakaash3350 The claim that science can't prove god doesn't exists doesn't mean god *does* exist.
This is not evidence that good scientists are "getting hints of spirituality in quantum physics".
I dunno about manifestation, I've had some spooky coincidences that are a little too close for comfort, one day I was at work remembering about somone I worked with maybe 2-3 years prior, I remembered our days together what jobs we did etc, then I thought about his girlfriend who he had some trouble with, I had met her once when he dropped his kid off, very briefly, this was years ago, I finish my daydream and Carry on working, I get a Facebook friend request.... It was his fucking ex girlfriend, whom I had never spoken too, randomly 3 years later, on the very same day I thought about her for whatever unknown reason, I'm not saying I manifested it, but duck me the coincidence was almost too perfect
@@rahulprakaash3350 Dude you're so scientifically illiterate, you just say things that are unrelated and then make claims about atheism or whatever.
Quantum mysticism isn't the opposite of atheism.
Quantum mysticism is the opposite of science.
Science and religion aren't mutually exclusive, you can practice one while believing the other.
"This room has such good energy!"
*Geiger counter intensifies*
Welcome to chernobyl
LOL
"Yes I can feel it touch me. Envelop me..."
*[Acute radiation poisoning intensifies]*
The most underrated comment ITT
and everyone expectedly dies
My mother is a "spiritual healer" and doesn't want to be told the only thing she can beam out of her hands is the placebo effect. But i love this video and it gave me plenty of aguments to use. In addition i bought your book after listening to it on audible. Keep doing what you're doing.
gotta have faith that he is telling the truth
@@dobgamers no, faith is required for accepting claims. He just points out they're based on pseudoscience, misunderstandings and nonsense
I would rather blast the Hadoken from my hands, I don't know why she is wanting to do something that medicine can already do.
What is the placebo effect? It’s mind willing the universe. The placebo effect is such bullshit that scientifically minded people have to control all experiments for it… come on now
If she’s happy with it then why try to ruin it? My grandma is also very into this “energy” and mysticism and rocks have power. But I don’t say anything to her because it makes her happy even tho it’s crazy.
Man, this is something that bothers me so much as a physics student. They throw around words like frequency and quantum while bastardizing its meaning completely. They never engaged with physics, they can't calculate the speed of a falling apple, they don't know shit. They take the language and forget the scientific method from which the language emerged in the first place.
I think a lot of people have some interest to engage with physics but then end up with this bullshit and it makes me sad.
what im saying is they're fucking up my vibe tensor
_"They throw around words like frequency and quantum while bastardizing its meaning completely"_
...Looking at *_you,_* Marvel Studios! :)
@@AlbertaGeek They're making fictional movies. I give them the pass because real science doesn't support anything that happens in the movies obv.
I will never understand the misuse of the word frequency because like surely the concept if vibration is such an obvious and every day thing that it shouldn't sound mystical to anyone right? Like this isn't a complex topic, it's just how often something vibrates per second.
So basically people should engage with physics and end up with the SAME CONCLUSIONS as you have?
Funny.
If you really want a crystal that emits real energy, feel free to pick a piece of graphite from Chernobyl.
Vibe check
*Geiger counter clicking intensifies*
What about dilithium crystals??? There, run rings around you logically...
Crystal meth, lol.
@@kronikkronolov9793 It doesn't emit energy, but there are definitely some funny crystals you can eat👍🏻👍🏻
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don't" - Richard Feynman
It's no wonder Einstein was so uncomfortable about it.
Nice :) that goes in my favorite quotes ljst
It's very mysterious..
"There's still a school of thought, that cannot believe that quantum mechanics is so much different than largescale behavior, I think that's a deep prejudice. They're always seeking to finding, to waiting for the day that we discover that underneath quantum mechanics are some mundane ordinary balls hitting or particles moving and so on. I think they're going to be defeated, I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax!" - Richard Feynman on the Fun To Imagine television recordings.
Same same for Buddhism 🙏
This is such a weird experience for me to watch, because I used to watch Leo for his meditation videos, and a few other videos on Buddhism and self improvement. I dropped off when all his new videos were about drugs and pick up culture, but I never thought it'd go THIS far.
His videos genuinely helped me out in a tough time of my life, and I've recommended his channel to others getting into meditation. Not anymore. Really sad to see what he has become.
Yeah, I'm kinda in the same boat. I just started drifting away from him and never could get myself to watch any of his newer stuff. I was getting an intuitive repulsion to him that just said "Nah, you don't need him anymore." or something like that. It's hard to put a deep gut reaction into words without using waaay too many words or it sounding like nonsense.
Leo is best,him referring himself as God is not a good idea
Is it just me, or does he seem deeply unhappy in those later videos? He's talking about how he's reached total understanding and how it solved all his problems, but he just seems less and less happy in each video. And sure enough, by the end he's speaking in a quavering voice about how only dying can bring true completion. He needs help.
@@hmnhntr Dude is completely crazy. Can you see?
He seduct you to spreed agentural bullshit hidden in parascientific argumentation agains spiritual awaking of humanité. He is an agent or he became. A troll paied for spreading conservative demagogic
it's actually a hard pill to swallow that just by having a way with words paired with confidence and enough persuasiveness can cause people to lure into this kind of bs. it's disheartening to know that people are actually willing to take notes with 0 knowledge and 100 confidence. maybe that's the main reason why salesmen doesn't need to have 100% knowledge on how their product works, they just have to have the guts and charisma to tell that it works and provides people solutions even they're offering empty promises. i worked before as a sales support, and can't stand the way my coworkers persuade their customers by giving them extreme stretch of benefits/exploiting their wants to turn it into a necessity ot grandisizing the products' purpose just to sell something
literallyyy
I want to send this to my lovely mother who insisted that I have “bad energy” and she’s “cutting her cosmic cord” with me when I was 12. When she described how I have “bad energy” she was just describing my autism.
Spiritualism and abusive parenting. Name a more iconic duo.
I'm so sorry you're dealing with that!
Thats f***ed up. On a tangent, the only thing I hate more than religion is religion for profit, the only thing I hate more than religion for profit is religion for profit that pretends it is science.
Anybody who loves keqing is cool in my book. I’m sorry you had such a bad experience!
Wow. People are so ridiculously ignorant. Sorry about your mom.
"The periodic table is not a piano" - Something that shouldn't ever have needed to be said
Intriguing thought though. A keyboard with a key for every element could make some interesting music.
@@marccolten9801 pretty sure thats just minecraft note blocks
@@vicwelsh7608 I'd hit you with a scathing comment if I had the faintest idea what you just said.
@@marccolten9801 in Minecraft you can place note blocks on different blocks and they make different sounds depending on the block
@@vicwelsh7608 Thanks.
I love that this video is still evergreen, 2 years later. I come back every 2-3 months just to reinforce the concepts. Thanks for this brilliant piece.
As someone who has grown up with a mother that was very much into meditation and by extension this whole field, I just want to add a perspective here. I would describe myself as someone who pursues gaining knowledge and exploring the numerous fields of science. I am currently studying as a mechanical engineer, and am totally on the side of everything science related. I think the majority of the gurus and others in this whole field are genuine people that just want to help, a lot of their principles are based off early religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. Kindness and happiness are a couple of the many positive things that they preach, rather than blind faith and whatever the typical evangelist spouts. I've been studying the earliest forms of Buddhism for a little while now, as I am interested in the philosophical and scientific things that the Buddha had presented, like meditation. One of the biggest gurus, Deepak Chopra, is a meditator and claims his physical health has improved because of that. A fairly strong tie between meditation and neuroplasticity have been documented in recent years, so I'd say at least some of the things people like him believe in are accurate given our current understanding of meditation and the like. With all that said, though, I still don't believe in the quantum mysticism and misinformation aspects of their teachings.
So...in other words, every potential benefit in the teachings of quantum mysticism is internal, much like the placebo effect that Professor Dave mentioned.
I would also mention that many Christians, including evangelicals, say that they preach kindness and happiness and would never admit to promoting blind faith, regardless of how it seems to other people who are not so invested in their belief system. It's where the need for ad hoc pseudoscience comes from.
@@ezrakatz6742 yea thats fair - i will say tho that meditation is legit and not necessarily tied to quantum mysticism
@@gilernt Meditation isn't tied to quantum mysticism at all. It's just focusing all attention on one thing so you aren't thinking about whatever is stressing you out, therefore you calm down.
@@petermcgill3405 im not saying it's tied to it
@@gilernt I know. I'm explaining why you're right.
Let's be fair: magic healing crystals do cure one very specific problem known as "I need more shiny rocks in my room"
They sure do
Gib shiny rocks
Mystics and white girls who are into astrology have ruined my genuine love of Crystals because they do look cool. But the last thing I want is to invite a girl over and she sees a cool Crystal and says “omg that Crystal has ban energy.”
No, they solve two problems. You need more rocks and the con man needs more money. See? Perfect balance!
@@rulerovall1219 😂most of those scams were Made by guys, most of people who believes they're some kind of Magic Master are guys, most of gurus are guys, etc but sure blame white girls, as a male poc i can Say that really sounds like a r4c1st and m1s0gyni5t1c comment
"Anything that is made of 100% silicon is silicon"
-Professor Dave
Similar, though not quite on the same level, but aren't "All Butter" shortbread biscuits (aka cookies) just sticks of butter? ;-)
Mmmm the floor here is made of floor
@@hippyjoe haha
If it quacks like a duck
i watch this to regain my sanity after telltale and suris drive me bonkers.
As a physics college student just starting to learn about Hilbert space, Group Theory, Operators etc.
It's really straight out hilarious how people can sell jargon and call it "Quantum Physics" 😂
Nice work professor.
"i listen to people in school who are part of a human hierarchy that tells me these ideas are acceptable, isn't great that we all also do this?" 🤡🎯
(Deepak Chopra isn't right, but you aren't right either) 🎯
@@RickySmithNowif I add 🎯 to something does that make it right?
@@RickySmithNowyeah no. The difference is that in these universities, you do lab experiments. Here you can visually see the phenomena you are studying and why it happens.
Literally did this today. We had some quantum mechanics equation, and expected to see a specific light pattern on our equipment because of it. We were able to measure data and show that reality followed the model.
@@RickySmithNowI get what youre saying (Although I dont think you do) but you can't really pull any tricks in a scientific field where you can measure everything.
I was raised in a cult that was deep in this stuff, oh my did I love watching this video. it’s so cathartic.
Yep he is actually an insane person follow
same. glad i was able to break free from that. im now in college studying education in science!
Yeah sure let science help you in the afterlife
@@kabreelgustavo104 Whether there's an afterlife or not doesn't mean people should blindly follow whatever snake oil salesman tries to peddle their own "ticket to the afterlife"
@spencermannan6075 u are clueless I never said that all I and I'm not a atall telling anybody what to do. I'm just pointing out a fact take or leave..
Since u have nothing sensable to say ur irrelevant
Ultimately, if quantum mysticism actually worked, these scam artists could just make their conciousness manifest my credit card details instead of asking me for them.
Exactly, we all know how shitty these scam artists can be.
And you could also know how shitty they are with just 5 easy payments, though you'll have to tell me the card details since I'm not a mysticist grifter. :)
Damn, scam artists talking about how consciousness creates reality and how they can manifest whatever they want but they still can’t manifest some pussy
Yours ends with 4481
@@snewp_e2139 felines are beyond the laws of quantum physics
So I have a pretty extensive background in meditation. i lived in a Buddhist monastery for about a year, and I can tell you a lot of the stuff this whole quantum mysticism crap comes from is actually the verbiage used by meditation teachers to show people how to navigate that mindspace. The word "energy" in this concext generally refers to a perceptual phenomenon known as pitisukha which is essentially the feelings of calmness pervading throughout the body. This has direct correlate in Hindu traditions (prana), Chinese (qi) and even in Christianity (spirit). Even in Buddhism though, we are told specifically to NOT conjecture that this is somehow the ground of all being and that the universe is made of this stuff. To the Buddhists, it's mostly just seen as a perceptual phenomena. Taking it beyond that for us was always a bit of a no-no but I cant really speak of other traditions. It is very easy to see though how that verbiage used specifically to describe meditation gets conflated with the verbiage used in physics to describe, well, physics, to get some bastard pseudo-scientific, pseudo-religious fruitcakery. THEY ARE FUNDAMENTALLY DESCRIBING DIFFERENT THINGS lol.
Why would a quantum mysticist need money from me for a lesson?
If you need money materialize it with your consciousness.
Would very much break the economy
Why would a psychologist, a doctor, or a business man take money for their service?
Don't assume I'm taking mysticism side, I'm just thinking wherever doctors are cults or not. Well, evening lost meaning.
What is real?
@@AA86420 Because psychologists, doctors, and businessmen don't claim to be able to create reality? Just spitballin' here.
@@AA86420 Maybe bcs if they would do it for free they would starve? But it's just a theory.
@@lefcso the entire point is that they say they can control reality so why do they need us to give them mondy
A friend of mine is 100% into all things new age,reiki,chakras,remote healing,homeopathy and all kinds of spiritual stuff. She just wants to help people which is great. However she often posts stuff like this, quantum healing, quantum energies to heal you etc etc. I studied quantum mechanics in my astrophysics degree so will tell her whats wrong with the latest meme she has shared and often she understands and agrees, Then a new meme comes along and she will blindly repost and share it totally against what she had just agreed with. These people LOVE to insert the word quantum into any mystical things they are talking about to make it sound legit.
Are you sure you are a friend?
@@momof2marines378 yes we discuss things like this like adults.
@@momof2marines378?????
I'm a first year neuroscientist motivated to understand the objective nature of human subjective experience, and it's a bit annoying to have people say absolutely random shit. I'm not mad at them, and I'm not trying to disprove pseudoscience BS, I am just trying to discover truths that hold up against scientific criticism that help to explain the human brain, I want criticism while people who believe certain pseudoscientific things get annoyed from criticism.....anyways I'm thankful you made this video :)
i really dislike the crystal people, i was studying geology last year at uni and whenever i searched for a particular mineral's properties on google it was a dice roll whether i'd get new age woo or just the actual properties, it was really bloody annoying
You might wanna start looking for keywords you can copy-paste into your search that you can filter from the results.
@@AnaseSkyrider yeah so i think in the end i would just go straight to the websites i knew were ok (like mindb i think it was called, and some other ones), because annoyingly the crystal healing websites would actually contain some proper information, but only a little bit of it, and then you'd read two or three lines in and its talking about how amethyst heals cancer or something, so there wasnt really a good way to filter the bad results out :/ (unless i predicted what they'd lie about before i searched). it was quite annoying as well because even though theres loads and loads of information online about minerals in general, sometimes finding the specific information was very hard to find (like id have to go on several websites to find the specific property of a specific mineral)
but yeah igy
@@Name-dv4qu it was due to the search terms being used on the new-age woo sites as well as the legit ones (and often it seemed like some of their information was legit and copy-pasted from wikipedia or something, and then the rest of it was just about vibrations and how it heals cancer or whatever ... you know like a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down or something)
The Aliens say otherwise 👽
@@Name-dv4qu just because i was quite new to it back then, i was sort of scared of filtering out certain results (using NOT or something in the search) because i was worried i would cast my net too wide and exclude a bunch of stuff that was actually useful
Wait, so Chopra's book "Quantum Healing" would literally imply that it heals you the least amount possible.
@queerdo Do you know not what the definition of "quantum" is?
@queerdo "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' " -Isaac Asimov
@@k9strike931 "nuclear bombs just blow up atoms, those are tiny, shouldn't that make them some of the smallest bombs?"
Disclosure, didn't actually watch the video and I'm not about to this second, but if you grant (for the argument) that somehow you could consciously manipulate the quantum level of yourself, that just means the most fundamental level (which yes also relates to relative scale but still), it doesn't mean it's automatically resulting only in changes restricted to super localized subatomic areas. And even on the other hand, some relatively small areas of the body can still be where severe problems for overall health occur. Scale doesn't tell you everything.
@@quentincavell1527 "somehow you could consciously manipulate the quantum level of yourself"
That makes zero sense. Learn what quantum means.
@@quentincavell1527 you seriously don't have the slightest clue of what quantum mechanics even imply
The vibes I get from crystals are really specific, and always the same- the echoes of the screams of dying children as the mine they were working down to get the damned things collapsed
Thank you SO MUCH for this video, there isn't much videos debunking this subject. My mom got absolutely sucked into quantum mysticism a few years ago and every time I try to reason with her she takes it as an aggressive personal attack. She spends so much money on these scam artist "gurus'" online programs, etc. I kinda feel hopeless for her at this point...
Send her this video.
@@FlatEarthKiller yea i thought about that, hope she won't see it as an attack
As a musician, I cringed so hard when the Quantum Mystic guy said an octave down on the periodic table. And the 100% silicone sponge is hilarious.
This might be cringy but Pythagoras measured distance in musical tones. Moon is one tone away from earth. This is the guy who divided thousands of frequencies in semi tones so we can have the music we have today.
Except that's not what he said, lol. He said "octet" which is a valid chemistry term.
I don't know whether Dave purposefully misheard him or not...
Me too. im also a musician and every time i hear the word frequency in common conversation i know exactly what kind of person im dealing with and walk away.
@@___meph___4547 The latter is correct :D
Years ago my wife dragged me to a new age conference in Sydney. Deepak was visibly sick from flu or similar while preaching how we can all control our health. Several thousand people seemed not to notice. It was gibberish.
Rather sounds like the dissonance from Christian preachers regarding the gospel while they ride about in multi-million dollar private jets and live in mansions.
Hm what if its possible though and we just don't know how to do it? Similar to how we know things exist but not sure how it works
we all know this Indian man is just a con man we usually encounter on our unlucky day, but smarter.
@@randymulder9105 A while ago I came to realize that if I really wanted to understand reality I would have to actually do the practices, putting in hours on the cushion as a scientist would in the lab. I then came to find a whole other side to spirituality - retreats. On retreat, 95% of the time was spent practicing and the other 5% was review. This is completely opposite of how most people engage in spiritually which is listening to a guru talk 95% of the time and spending 5% practicing. In the retreat setting, no matter what conclusion you come to or what is appearing before you, the answer is always the same - go back and continue practicing.
So where there's a lot of muddiness in spirituality, conclusions without evidence and no way to prove an individual's enlightenment, there's also a whole other aspect which is nothing like that. These practices are the most scientific, skeptical, and sanest things I've done. The problem is, people are obsessed with the content of thoughts, they assume all answers can be handed to them in the form of words and comprehended as thoughts. Millions show up to hear Chopra speak, but only hundreds sit and investigate their experience morning and night.
The reason I'm saying this is just to shed light on the fact that we can have spirituality without debating who's enlightened or blindly believing what gurus say. None of that can touch the practical aspect which is raw and direct. The question then becomes "what practices do I use?" and my answer would be "from teachers who focus exclusively on practice and practice what they teach".
Thanks for you're honesty.
Recently I found a way that works for me to debunk that whole "if your body is screaming to run away that means I am right" is to reverse that statement.
"If you are attracted to my proposition, that means I am lying."
I'm not sure how well it helps with certain mysticism, but with Christianity where this is employed, it helps a lot because it puts doubt on the people who are attracted to Christianity.
The oversimplification of scientific concepts is really dangerous, I remember talking to someone who believes that evolution is a lie, and tells me that the second law of thermodynamics disproves evolution when I asked him why do you say that he told me that the theory states that everything goes towards randomness and of course he found this piece of information in a youtube video that oversimplifies the second law of thermodynamics when I tried to tell him that earth is not a closed system, he didn't even know what a closed system means.
I have a funny first-hand story about Chopra. He came to our University (he doesn't do that now) and spouted some BS. When I asked him about quantum physics and woo he went on his usual word salad, and ended that I was confused and should try to learn some quantum theory...which caused a great deal of mirth to my post-grad students (I teach mathematical physics, specialising in quantum experiments). Answers like this made the crowd more and more hostile to the point where he was essentially run off stage.
@@keithboynton sadly, it wasn't recorded, as observing it would ruin the lighting
Before anyone says this is fake, professors do have these kinds of discussions.
In my first year of college, we had a seminar where the presenter and our dean just started arguing with each other. Went over my jead at that point though.
That Chopra is such a charlatan, the epitome of the snake oil salesman.
@@keithboynton Me too; I would give my right arm to watch that guy get clowned by a bunch of students. 😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣
I think Sam Harris demolished Chopra in debate as well. Chopra was corrected and offered a quantum mechanics class by someone at the event, because it was in the vicinity of the university and the audience was full of PhDs, etc.
"The periodic table is not a piano"
The fact that this needs to be said is making me weep for humanity.
Well. String theory kinda makes it a piano. :D
@@haardo nobody takes string theory seriously in physics anymore. So much of it is reduced to this same quantum woo woo bullshit but they say “string theory” instead of “quantum.”
@@haardo good one
yeah it's more like a Kaleidoscope. Hear me out... look up 'black bands in rainbow' under science.
@@haardo string theory is unproven :D
OMG, THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Thanks for explaining the "Slit Experiment". That has been something that I couldn't wrap my head around because I didn't kmow why or how the Experiment worked. And really, a lot of people don't explain it that well. Hell, sometimes they leave it a mystery, and left me thinking that the eyeball watching the dot was the explination, but it just never sat well with me. I didn't know that the observation itself was the reason for the change in behavior. Course I guess I should have. In order to measure something, you gotta interact with it. I also agree that the language used is very misleading... "like it KNOWS its being watched". I've even heard that statement used in educational videos. Thanks for finally explaining something that had been a thorn in my side. I already have a hard enough time wrapping my head around concepts in Physics.
That’s always their big selling point 😂
Also, this video is fantastic. While I am wary of pseudoscientific nonsense, I am pretty dumb and never really understood what exactly energy is supposed to be in physics... So thanks for explaining it so simply.
Your thorough debunking of the rest of this horrible nonsense is also pretty good/entertaining.
Good energy is the kinetic energy of a car driving you to where you want to go.
Bad energy is the kinetic energy of a cannon ball going 200m/s straight to your face.
Best comment ever ! 🤣🤣🤣
Underrated
So its subjective
Perfect
I laughed way too hard at this, lol!
"What is energy?"
Energy is that thing I bloody well never seem to have!
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"Energy is the capacity to do work."
Yup. Still applies 😂
This is why those on the dole have no energy
I felt that to my core
I perceive "energy" to be misused in a lot of fields. Probably because it is only a concept or potential which is beyond many people. That is probably why! 😇
Energy is an abstract concept, even when we try to apply the most basic understandings of math and logic to it, it remains interchangeable in it's meaning. It's a term that can't really be used "literally" because, at it's core, energy is a property that has it's existence entirely based on the speaker's perspective of it and where the term is applied, meaning that, without an extremelly well defined and solid frame of reference, "energy" means absolutely nothing.
ADHD's a bitch sometimes.
Wow the beginning made me realize realise that I am one of those that only focuses on the frontier and have left by the side the basics, I truly want to understand things like quantum physics so this made me want to focus on picking back up physics in a more mathematical way and not just the explanations
The most frustrating part is how angry people get when you try to point out the nonsense they're spouting and what the physics actually says.
I was raised in a evangelical church believing in healing, speaking in tongues etc. So when I broke away I quickly got caught up in all these quantum physics and mystical teachings. It took years but I finally rid myself of all false beliefs.
I don't think it possible or even desirable to rid yourself of all false beliefs. We are subjective observers, not omniscient gods that can _know_ truth absolutely. Rationalism is about becoming comfortable with uncertainty. It's saying "I belive x and will act as if x is true, but I could be wrong and am open to changing that belief if the evidence presents itself."
@@MrFlameRad I mean, I don't worship it, but I certainly hold the scientific consensus in high regard. In fact, I hold it in the highest regard of all current human systems.
This is despite knowing about the errors, negligence, funding biases, and outright fraud that are more common than they should be.
But it still produces higher confidence knowledge than any other existing method. If you are not an expert in a particular (and narrow) field, then you are _rationally_ better off accepting the consensus as more likely than any other idea you might have. Even if that idea comes from an expert in the field; if that idea disagrees with the consensus, you should not hold it in higher confidence than the consensus. The expert might be right; but until he changes the consensus, the layperson should trust him less.
This is a common problem in the skeptic community. Being skeptical of strange anomalous phenomena described anecdotally is very different from being skeptical of the expert shared opinions of scientists in a particular field. It's easy to bias towards one own experience and understanding. But that experience is, itself, anecdotal. You should apply skepticism to yourself. If you find yourself disagreeing with an expert on their matter of expertise you should assume that you are missing something, not that they are.
@@slicedtoad I would say it's possible to rid all false beliefs, but I would also say this leads to a very different place than most people imagine. And the way you get there is like you said at the end "apply skepticism to yourself". I think this is really what the core of spirituality is [supposed to be] about and why it hinges so greatly on mindfulness. You are essentially dying to observation. All perceptions need to be deconstructed, even the ones that come from words of Mystics (Chopra, Leo, all others).
The knowledge offered through these [mindfulness] practices are not the kind of knowledge scientists deal with. Where a scientist would think omniscience is knowing everything in the past and future (and perhaps what color underwear Joe Smoe is wearing), omniscience in spirituality is knowing the past and future arise as thoughts without any delay between the arising of the thought and the knowing of the thought arising, same with the passing away of the thought (and all sensations in the field of direct awareness). This creates a sense of totality and completeness which is what they call omniscience. It is essentially untangling the ambiguous, fused ball of experience into it's raw and non-symbolic constituents. And nothing can be said about it because words and thoughts are themselves, not the things they point to.
I wish this distinction was more clear for people because it would clear up a lot of confusion and conflict, but the kaleidoscope of views that make up that confusion is also just the nature of this crazy universe :)
@@bike4aday There is so much equivocation with that kind of explanation.
Omniscience typically means all-knowing. It includes all knowledge, not just inwardly directed self-knowledge. Why would you use 'omniscience'? At the very least, qualify it with a prefix like: self-omniscience, auto-omniscience. Something like 'enlightenment' would probably work but might be a bit too broadly used. Make up a new term or find one that doesn't more commonly mean something entirely different.
Remember, words are just symbols we use as part of a communication protocol. They allow us to move ideas from one mind to another, translated by language. They only work when people share the same understanding of the words.
"Where a scientist would think omniscience is knowing everything in the past and future"
No, the scientist doesn't _think_ this. The scientist _knows_ that this is the standard definition and _chooses_ to use this definition by default. There are no 'true' definitions; just common definitions, specialized definitions (used in professional fields or niche communities: legal, sports, etc) and localized ones (dialects, slang, etc).
There is nothing wrong with spiritual practices. They are, in fact, universal to humans (as far as I know). They could probably be better described as "practices pertaining to emotional and existential health" (or something like that). What is wrong (irrational at a minimum) is using spiritual means to answer scientific questions and privileging your spiritual experiences above scientific results. Science answers the "what" and "how" of our universe. Spirituality can answer "why" and "should". Objective vs Subjective.
At best, there is some overlap between psychology and mindfulness. But it definitely has nothing to do with physics. You're welcome to use physics discoveries to inform your worldview and subsequently influence your spiritual practices, but not the other way around. You'll notice that every one of the people in the video broke that rule. They also liked to misinterpret physics and then use that misinterpretation to justify their spiritual practices.
So while I appreciate your attempt at justifying mindfulness, be careful that you are only defending actual mindfulness practices and not the fraudulent mess that is quantum mysticism.
@@slicedtoad I definitely agree with you that the right words should be used, but it's a tough situation because I also see a pattern where misunderstanding leads to misuse of the word and then having to come up with new language again and again. I've had many long discussions about whether we should clarify the meaning of words or use new ones and I'm not entirely sold on either approach. The problem is we have two contexts, let's call them 'spiritual' and 'egoic', and these contexts change the meaning of words, but we're trying to use a word someone understands in one to point to the other which they don't already see. It's like those pictures that can be seen 2 different ways, they have to flip perception to see it. Even prefixes like 'self' and 'auto' have different meanings in both contexts, so it doesn't really get around the issue.
With all that being said, using physics terminology for spiritual wisdom is like dipping steak in chocolate - terrible mix LOL. The two approaches are:
1. Clarify original core spiritual terminology (which will piss off a lot of people that use/believe the corrupted version)
2. Create new spiritual terminology (which will piss off a lot of people that use those words in the 'egoic' context)
The new spiritual terminology I prefer is like how I described omniscience, but that comes from years of first-hand experience learning where the traps for miscommunications are. Even then, if someone wanted to learn spirituality I would never start with a definition of omniscience. Mindfulness seems to be the best starting place, the bread-and-butter of practice, and just happens to be really profound in it's mastery.
Anyways, yeah, I'm not entirely sold on any of these approaches for communication, but I understand if you see new terminology to be the way to go. My equivocations may seen overly complex and unnecessary, but that comes from years of experience, and probably some mild OCD for trying to account for every possible misinterpretation.
"the periodic table is not a piano" absolutely murders me it's so funny
Every time I hear it 😂
Wait wait wait - you mean my Requiem in Pb-minor doesn't work? Dammit.
@@robertnett9793 lmfaoooo
We all know that playing music on your periodic table is the only true way to play heavy metal
@@StardustCorvid I love pun
It's always impressive and comforting to see rational people working hard to educate apes without losing their mind over the mass wilful ignorance thats overly abundant within our species. I'm out here losing my mind all by myself.
I think the general idea behind all this bs is to make people feel inferior if they say it doesn't make sense.
@@margaretwebster2516 Incorrect, thanks for playing.
they aren't apes, they are real humans. If you are lied to over and over again, not given the space to think, and not having been taught critical thinking skills, you would fall down the same errors as them.
Humble that ego a lil bit bubba, for all our sakes
@@cewla3348Humans are apes. Homo sapiens.
The dude at the end is legit terrifying.
I feel so much negative energy coming from this video that I need to detoxify my chakras and realign my bioenergy fields with the quantum frequency of the Universe so that my aura vibrates harmonically again.
I know someone who does chokra rebores…..
Your Quantum field is emitting zero potential at this present time in reality. Frequency .
@@MoreKornflakes Yes, very true. And I love the "Frequency." as a one-word sentence because that by itself says so much to those in the know.
best root chakra detox lies within a good fart 😇😇😇
Agreed, Spirituality & Philosophy is not separate from Science and Mathematics, and they need to be integrated together to actually get anywhere.
This video misses the entire point of spirituality and creates a division, but the average “New Ager”, needs to stop the fluff, and have concrete logic and reasoning to their intuitive artistic big picture thinking.
"i am omniscient, i know everything that is happening in the universe"
"hang on, what's that at my door?"
...I am omniscient.....
Half-Life 3,release date,please.
@@user-jf5gm1bt4h
"Oh that. Ummm...I uh... I know everything about that game. The universe told me it's better than 1 and 2. But it doesn't want me to tell you the release date."
Gotta ask him for gta vi’s release date ffs
Ah yes the "Messiah" right there in his Temple of Nod.
@@user-jf5gm1bt4h
That's easy- Never.
Ha! I'm one of the new age nuts that managed to escape but there was a time when What the Bleep Do We Know was the gospel I lived by. Sounds silly now but it made so much sense at the time. I recently did some therapy with psilocybin to treat PTSD and sometimes it's such a powerful experience that it feels like you've entered the realm of the gods or have connected with universe in a profound way that's hard to look away from once you've been there. But Man, some people get ridiculously woo-woo with it. I found Carl Sagan way before mushrooms so I'm all good and I use your line from this vid all the time. It does seem like there's a region of the brain that's there to seek out and connect with the divine and psychedelics can be an incredible way of scratching that little itch we all have in us. To me the fact that its all chemistry in my brain is mind blowing enough as is so I don't need to dress it up with any mysticism and nonsense.
Me too! Lol I was preaching the gospel of Joe Dispenza lol
The chemical abilities of life puts basically any human chemist to shame, like humans struggle to even simulate protein folding and get half decent yields, meanwhile a single one of our cells can produce thousands of proteins each second. And the insane part is that it only does so because of some insane Rube-Goldberg chain of chemistry that made it do it, there isn't even any silicon or any transistors involved anywhere.
love this, thank you for your insight
@@michellem8388 Thank you!
@@Callmethebreeze902This is one of those comments that snuck past me but I'm so glad you were able to move past Joe Dispenza. My dad died of cancer and towards the end started praying to be healed by Jesus. Didn't work and he died with tickets to see Benny Hinn (scam super preacher). Joe's D's garbage about healing cancer with your mind infuriates me in the same way faith healers do. Scamming desperate people that are facing death is super f***ed up. I did a vid exposing Gaia's BS on psychedelics you may enjoy. czcams.com/video/RA0ysC_GFzg/video.html
Deepak Chopra had been one of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's most prized disciples before he struck out on his own. He had learned all of Maharishi's successful marketing tricks and usage of pseudoscientific language wrapped in Eastern mysticism phraseology. He learned from Maharishi the art of sounding deep while saying nothing. Not surprisingly, the queen of New Age woo Oprah Winfrey has endorsed both Chopra and Transcendental Meditation. I will say that I still perform TM regularly because it can be pleasurable and peaceful, but you would have to be a fool to believe most of the gobbledygook claims Maharishi made about it and its advanced techniques like "yogic flying".
An old coworker of mine was telling me about a "cleansing" he went to once, and as he was describing the bodily pain and sweating and dizziness and shitting himself, I came to the realization that he had actually paid someone to poison him for an evening.
Ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is reaL??? I was going to Peru but now I have a second thought on it what do you think bout Ayahuasca or wachuma .???
What are those things? Are they the poison OP referred to?
@Williamsburg Bushwick
Ayahuasca and other psychedelics are seen as a "shortcut" to mystical experiences. You can have the same experiences by praying or meditating over a long period of time. Following a spiritual practice and meditating or praying every day is the safer and better way even though it might take years.
Yeah its a psychedelic plant from South America used by shamans as a way to cleanse your spirit and trip out with them. Never tried my self but heard rumors about it. Also heard it makes you loose your bowels which can be dangerous to some
Professor Dave, continuing to smack down pseudoscientific nonsense one charlatan at a time. Well done!
I've yet to find someone else do it so thoroughly and absolutely, although for a bit of a comedic flair I do like me some CHL (CoolHardLogic).
This sort of empiricist nonsense here is pre-trans fallacy 101.
@@balladofcoseypolar4711 Lol, what?
@@balladofcoseypolar4711 nice, you tried out the Deepak Chopra sentence generator!
@@ChainsawChristmas If you don't understand a sentence, that is your problem. And I don't like Deepak because he uses quantum metaphors too much and his content is not that deep.
When I was at the late years of my adolescence, I was very depressed. When I looked for help, with a psychologist, mind you, I was faces with someone who behaved more like a cult leader, despite working for a public clinic (I am not from the US). Lots of people, myself included, suffered a lot from that, including sexual harassment.
This video took a very dark turn for me at the end, but it is extremely necessary to warn people about these kinds of manipulation tactics.
I thank you for giving people that warning, no one deserves to live through this kind of thing.
I'm glad I found this video because apparently you can't be a former physics student who listens to guided meditations without the algorithm recommending you this stuff, it does sometimes make for a good chuckle though
"when you're not looking at your child, it's infinity, it's nothingness."
I bet that child (existant or no) developed object permanence before Leo did.
Underrated comment
@@177SCmaro never thought of that before, but that could be plausible according to his own logic
Makes sense though since electromagnetic waves are the only way for two systems to interact and our universe is based on electromagnetic interactions only. So if you are not looking, your child is in an undefined state. And undefined might as well not exist.
Just so you know, this is sarcasm.
EDIT: a word
@@Mefistofy and thank moses for that, you honestly had me convinced you were serious in that first half, and i was about ready to put you on blast.
@@177SCmaro I believe Leo's stance is that he is the only thing that exists. So you can't turn off his video. The only things happening are things that he perceives.
Edit: I've just been told that you and I are also God. I retract my above statement.
I found this meme once about healing crystals. A woman hotglued crystals into her car, because she said they gave the car a postive energy, and that they helped her feel good on mondays. She also put them on the steering wheel, and the caption said: "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU JUST TURNED YOUR AIRBAG INTO A CLAYMORE" and laughed my ass off
at first i misread your comment and thought that she hotglued crystals into her ears
funny thing is, i wasn't even surprised at first because thats what i expect from such ppl lmao
I prefer injuring crystals. They're exactly the same as healing crystals but instead of holding them in your hands and saying "om", you throw them from your hands and say "bomb".
does seem like much of a sword.
Nice. Yeah, dumb.
Little did they know, it would actually function more like a cluster bomb and/or shotgun.
On top of this video being entertaining, it finally answered my question(i have math point of view), that is "is time continues or discrete", and what i got from quantization is that its discrete. Thank you :D
Energy is the scalar quantity that is conserved, for a specific continuous transformation, that is also a symetry of the action. Under the T=t+εt transformation, energy is pẋ-L were L is the Lagrangian that describes the system, p is the generalized momentum defined as ∂L/∂ẋ. The quantity pẋ-L as a function of p and x is called the Hamiltonian which is also a function (like the Lagrangian) that describes the state of the system. If we assume that the Lagrangian for a classic mechanical system is T-V (kinetic -potential energy) then the Hamiltonian becomes T+V (kinetic +potential energy) which is the total mechanical energy of the system. The Hamiltonian is conserved if and only if it is time independent (closed system)
If Oprah Winfrey married Deepak she would be Oprah Choprah. Now that would be a quantum joint banking account.
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Lmao
Kool! Funny!
She could give away free magic cars.
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Hithere Professor! I have now seen most of your videos and I want to say : thank you for your hard work, not only for entertaining and educating me but also being a voice of reason on this platform of "alternative facts". I understand that this video is old and I doubt that you track all your videos , but who knows - I'll just try here first and see . I came across a very interesting thing called Synchronicity. Apparently the old psychiatrist Carl Jung coined this concept in the late 1920 "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection." Carl himself meant that it was pointing to something paranormal but did not conduct any experiments or observations to reach his conclusions. But as it seems there is very few skeptic voices here on youtube on the matter. I believe its needed and I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
23:02 Very true. I DO love cool shapes! However, I also am aware that shapes don't necessarily have meaning. And the ones that do, have basis in science, can be tested and proven, and are usually not that cool to look at.
Also, 47:52 I have had quite a bit of trauma in my life, but I count myself fortunate that the end result of all that is that I am less vulnerable to conmen and charlatans. I need proof before I can believe, respect before I can trust. Making me exactly the kind of person these people DON'T want, because I can and will question every facet of everything they're peddling until I receive a satisfactory, plausible, scientific answer.
Animated spirituality guru:- "One octave down from carbon is silicon!"
Dave:- That's called a 'period', the periodic table is not a piano...
The best line I've heard in a while and I watch comedy every day
Man's talking about vibrations and frequencies and octaves, he's in the wrong field
@@bobjohn8581 Tachyons are "out there science" like wormholes. They are ominous anomalies that we haven't found. While they may explain things currently they do more harm then good.
Tachyons apparently go faster than light which in the current state of physics is impossible. When you start reaching light speed you start to gain mass which means you need more energy to go faster which adds more mass. So you need infinite energy to reach light speed let alone cross it. Going 99.9999999.... percent lightspeed is the best you can do if you can ever get the energy needed. If you can harness such gargantuan amounts of energy you can just wipe out a galaxy with pure energy. Power civilizations past the heat death of the universe.....
Light by the way escapes this by just having no mass but it isn't pure energy......
Also to be "scientific" you need to measure it. Famously Einstein's general theory of relativity was considered false until he predicted the exact curvature of light from a star when it goes past the sun into the earth. It was tested and his theory worked. Only then was his theory accepted. There is nothing that can be measured about these "vibrations"
Don't even get started on vibrations. Vibrations means an oscillation, which is an objectoving back and forth like waves on the sea. That oscillation needs energy and that energy need to come from somewhere so crystals and deeds don't give out vibrations. It is true that you release vibrations in the form of radiation in infrared but no, that doesn't effect anyone....
@@bobjohn8581 bottom line. Lightspeed is a speed limit you'll revolustionise physics by involving a particle faster than light speed....
But if that's true, chocolate wouldn't be an octave of sun energy. Checkmate naturalists!
@@bobjohn8581 there’s no such thing as a “random theory” in science... what you’re saying is straight up speculation
My sister got a 98% in quantum physics at McGill. Nothing else to say here, just very proud of her
Yay, congrats! 😊
Great, she'll probably join a Cult!
McGill, Saul Goodman
We win these
tell her we say congrats! :)
Hey man, love your videos, been watching a lot because I am getting pretty involved with science right now, I am in year 11 Atar (Australian uni version of a course 2nd last year of school) Phyiscs and Chemistry, I would go with bio or human bio, but I am pretty bad at them, so I went with phys and chem, anyways, Love your stuff, has had me learning a lot on top of what I learn at school, which is an investigation on relative heat capacities of different materials, where we are given a random material from a list of different heat capacities and have to find out what material we have, and in chem where we are doing net ionic equations, just started the year, so not too complex, anyways, keep it up, love your stuff.
Thank you professor. I needed this video in my life. I am tired of New Era BS. My life is much more simpler since I am into science.
My mom has fallen victim to the pseudo science cults to the point that I am now worried for her. She no longer trusts any doctor and relies only on "natural" medicine, energy treatments and other magic to get her health in check. As she ages further and the fear of death becomes more substantial I fear that she will spend everything she has on those gurus, just so she can confirm her biases and this will lead her to having a miserable old age. It's just saddening how we have achieved so much and yet, there are still ways to exploit our naive magical thinking to such extremes as to forego medication just in order to prove a point.
Strap her to a chair and force her to watch this.
These 'natural' medicine is older then your modern medicine and even your trust on 'modern' medicine can be seen as a 'bias' towards your doctors
@@ksupadhyaya Older means good what a logic
@@AbhinavKumar-ov3xf newer means good.what a logic
@@ksupadhyayawhen did i say that
As aggravating as quantum mysticists are, there is one thing I have to thank them for: they reignited my interest in physics and were a small part of my motivation for going back to school, and now I'm doing a PhD in plasma atomic physics.
@The Truth Define "soul"
Keep up the good work brother. Hoping best for you. My motivation to learn science and take my high school syllabus more seriously is also somehow indirectly fuelled by these pseudoscience peddlers. In India, you will find a lot of them.
@Sai Sasank True but because of this modern scientific temper is lost. Pseudoscience is on the high rise in India, I don't know whether modern scientific temper will survive in India or not.
@Sai Sasank Science and philosophy used to coexist completely but modern scientific thought is different from philosophy experimentation is not a part of philosophy. Philosophy works on the principle of rationality, logic, intuition, and common sense, modern science also works like this but it has experimentation that makes it slightly different from philosophy.
Note:- This comment is not done to disarm your argument rather it tries to extend your point.
@@CynicalBastard Define "meaning"
Leo Gura literally thinks real life if like Minecraft: if you aren't actively looking at something, then the chunks aren't loaded 😂😂
Bad energy: being held above a pit of spikes.
Good energy: a compressed spring set to push you away from the spikepit and onto a mattress.
"such as Scientology and other successful criminal enterprises" ok, that got me. That's good. Don't get sued.
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They will be going through his bins.
Professor Dave spitting some facts
Can't be sued for statements of fact or opinion. Only when those statements are meant to harm or deceive or are not based on facts.
(See the recent claims made by those loyalists to the orange ogre about some voting machines).
@@ivanivonovich9863 You're clearly unaware of how notoriously litigious Scientology is.
I completely agree about needing to understand terms and determine if they are being used correctly. One of the most common comments I post on CZcams science videos is asking if some term from the video is defined in that science the same way I am understanding it as a mathematician, and if not, how is it defined?
Great content, love your chem and ochem courses!!
Leo: I learned about everything by thinking about it.
The pointy bit on the Dunning Kruger graph: You are here.
Yep, he's definitely at the bottom-est pit of no return
"Deep down, I know this"
Not exactly.
Just to clarify: are you saying you learned about EVERYTHING by thinking about it? No-one, and no sources of information outside of your inherent intelligence influenced you in any way? From language to mathematics to, well… EVERYTHING, you came up with it on your own just by thinking about it? Airplanes, automobiles, computers, the light bulb??? Cool! You’re one super-smart dude!!!
@@erikarneberg11 whoosh!
"Things can happen only when things are perfectly balanced" is my favorite, because by sheer coincidence it happens to even be related to scientific truth, by virtue of being its exact opposite. *Nothing* happens and nothing will *ever* happen again once "things are perfectly balanced". It's the heat death of the universe.
Well, technically not.
@@idiosyncraticlawyer3400 But actually yes. Perfect universal equilibrium is total heat death. We don't know it will happen that way, but if it does the universe will be effectively dead.
@@voxorox Quantum pointcare recurrance states that heat death isn't permanant, as quantum fluctuations are inherently random and can never be balanced, so one large enough to reverse heat death will almost certainly happen eventually.
It's waffle designed to sound clever. Take away the fact that it's obvious nonesense and check the logic.
If things can only happen when things are perfectly balanced then either;
a) Things are always perfectly balanced - because things happen all the time.
b) Nothing can ever happen - because taking any action to create balance is a thing happening.
@@idiosyncraticlawyer3400 That doesn't entirely contradict him. Heat death is still perfect thermal equilibrium. Also, that hypothesis has fallen out of favor, including with Sean Carroll. It is possible that heat death isn't actually possible, because we don't actually have a solid way to account for gravitational forces. Gravitational entropy hasn't been quantified. There's also no way to know if the universe is a closed system in thermal equilibrium.
As someone who loves crystals and witchcraft, I see it as like writing my shopping list vs trying to remember everything and forget things.
Holding a tigers eye reminds me to be wise, looking at amethyst helps me calm down and "protects me" from negativity by redirecting my mind on something else, spell charms reminds me of goals and motivates me more to do it etc.
It should be used as another form of mindfulness meditation, I could use any other objects to meditate with but rocks and plants are cool.
There's nothing wrong with meditation, i think everyone should do it because it promotes introspectiveness, self awareness I see too many people lack 🙄
Like the awareness of that good happy feeling you get when you see a beautiful crystal shine isn't from the crystal, but it's from within. Just because it brought happiness to you, doesnt mean waving it around changes how the world works.
yo! thank you so much for being an influential voice advocating on behalf of of the sciences and importance of critical thought! please continue pointing out flawed science and flawed epistemology when you have the capacity to do so! i see you still in the comment section and had to extend my thanks! btw i saw you embarrass james your and that was great 😂
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
- André Gide
Beautiful indeed.
So that's a truth? So I'm supposed to doubt this person?
why would I believe 'those who are seeking truth' ?
I thought that said, Ariana Grande, at first.
They would have liked each other.
"When you realize that you're God, it will instantaneously solve every problem in your life."
Tried it- still had to call a plumber for our back bathroom.
Gods can summon various other gods and spirits, like plumbers and elevators, to do their bidding. You know, like if Aphrodite needs a lightning bolt thrown at someone, she doesn't do it herself, she calls up Zeus
@@alexeyvlasenko6622 Got it! 😄
@@alexeyvlasenko6622 still doesn't solve the fact that all leo said has all been disproved
@@user-ib1dx4dh3n Among innumerable other abilities, gods can disprove anything that Leo says?
@@alexeyvlasenko6622 not that but literally everything else excluding absolute infinity (debatable)
It’s crazy how many comments on this video mention someone’s mom being duped by these charlatans, that sucks and to bad they can just scam ppl the way they do!
I think what Professor Dave fails to understand is that imagination is entangled in humble phenomena and each of us unfolds through ephemeral energy such that the key to joy corresponds to the flow of timelessness and awareness is a reflection of subtle positivity, man! Yeah, far out.
Oh sorry! I got to playing with that random quote generator thingy and I think it caused me to have some kind of episode or something.
Please disregard the accidental spewing of woo.
*angrily likes*
i thought you were actually serious for a second, you must be very good at word salads and buzz words
@@thatoneguy5043 : I've heard enough of it from people I used to know who would believe in damned near anything so long as it wasn't so-called "mainstream science."
Some people equate pseudo science bullshit (like I spewed here) with "wisdom" and they try to attach some meaning to it even if the person they're listening to doesn't make any sense. The simple fact is, it's not hard to do.
"consciousness creates reality" sounds like someone put "I think therefore I am" through Google translate 100 times
nah bro learn Vedanta
@Sai Sasank yes,of course,i am not saying that it does. But it does say that consciousness create/is reality
I don't know how Deepak Chopra wife survives him.
@@shivammishra1720 money.
@@DrGodzilla1954 That seems a perfect answer because according to me she should be paid for living with him.
I love this kind of content. The funniest part was when the omniscient Leo didn't know who was at his door.
I found it more unsettling with how much indifference he treated the guy.
@@fliu5282 The opposite. Leo, the omnipotent being, should have known there is someone at the door. Should have treated the amazon guy nicely.
Ah, but there clearly was an aura of dark qi that obscured the vision of his third eye! Remember, even Yoda had trouble seeing through the dark side
@@travis6279 🙏🙏🙏🙏
So I just had an advert on Quantum mysticism BS on this VERY video Proff... YT is screwed!!
Picking on Jared from spirit science without pointing out he thinks Jews came from space.
Joozians
I don't think there's an issue conflating two concepts with one an other, as it's a normal part of vocabulary evolution to save time and energy. The only issue is when we don't properly explain those concepts, such as how the room does not have "good energy", but does have characteristics that trigger associations in the brain which then trigger hormones that make us feel nice. So, the combination of the room's composition and the associations in the brain cause a chemical reaction with an energy cost. So since language is still very new and clumsy, we're at a loss when explaining what has energy and what imparts it, because we have the chemical energy and we impart in onto ourselves to perform chemical chain reactions. So rather than placing the energy in the associations inside our brain, we place it in the physical objects tied to those associations. Of course you could say, "this room reminds me of other rooms where I had nice experiences", but more than likely, you won't be conscious of the associations involved in a "vibe" you get off of something, and of course all that takes more time to say than, "good energy."
It reminds me of how my niece at 1 year old could hold a toy phone and walk across the floor without help, because the phone was her association tool that helped activate her balance and alleviate anxiety, reminding her of other, more effective supports she used to walk and giving her the somewhat false sense that this one would do the same job. In a way it did though, by helping her associate the walking routine in her brain to the new movement of walking without supports, without making the two routines seem like different routines.
In that way, physical objects can play a very similar role for adults such as reminding us of promises, dates, people, places, emotions, morals, etc.
The energy we impart on objects by giving them definitions, and the almost magical(sufficiently advanced) effect that has on human civilization is why we have the quote, "In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was with God."
This refers to the magical power of human speech. How it has the ability to change the world and our very concept of the universe. Language makes war, peace, craftsmen, scientists, art, government... language is how we are able to rapidly exterminate species across the planet in the pursuit of resources, language is how we cure diseases and erradicate them. It's easy to see how this highly advanced concept with uncountable implications could be seen as magical or even godly.
I've always been a skeptic about metaphysical things, and generally everything. True skepticism should including not fully disbelieving the point in question as well. If some scientists believe there are upwards of 10 dimensions folded microscopically into each other, then there's nothing wrong with people believing in reincarnation, afterlife, auras, etc, etc, etc. As long as they're working to explain those beliefs through data or following those beliefs in a way that doesn't go against data too much. The data seems to show that humans owe a lot of their successes to people who ignored data and did the illogical, so maybe it doesn't hurt if a few people(key phrase "A FEW") don't listen to scientists and have their own crackpot theories.
Newton believed the universe and its systems were too beautiful to not be the work of God, he simply didn't believe God was like a warden watching over his creations and rather set the universe in motion to step back and watch it unfold.
The thing that bothers me the most about all of these people is they love to bring up scientific discoveries when they think it proves their ideas, but will deny the scientific method when it doesn't.
Exactly
@@Micscience Please do elaborate on what you mean by "in actual reality, there is no real proof of that"
@@Micscience 84% people (Pew 2019) believe in some sort of supernatural entity(the majority of people) does that make it true? Is that the 'conventional thought' to which you refer?
If people 'differ' let them hypothesise,test,validate,
repeat their non conventional assertions/claims.
There is no 'your' side of the scientific data.
The scientific data conform to a testable alternative or null hypotheses.
Every scientist like every other human are indeed biased and fallible and the scientific method was devised to minimise( but not eradicate) those .
Science is provisional,tentative, imperfect and non absolute how could it be any other way?
What you can't do is insert,fanciful conjecture,wishful thinking,conspiratorial ideation,pet theories,nebulous imaginings,abstract concepts into the knowledge base without evidence.where would that take us?
@@Micscience I want to be shocked. So, show me these peer reviewed studies that cannot be replicated. It shouldn't be hard since you said there are plenty. How much do you want to bet that you will link to a website or video that is run by people with bias themselves.
Please send me to these peer reviewed studies you speak of.
Your point about how the public is primarily interested in frontier sciences really struck me. I had to reexamine my basic scientific knowledge, and my motivations for wanting to learn about advanced stuff. I was sort of surprised, I've got a shitty grasp on a lot of basic concepts. Thanks for the reality check!
Edit: fixed a typo
I used to always ask the teacher when we were going to learn quantum physics when I hadn’t even done the math for Newton’s laws.
Great talk. Really enjoyed it. One minor nitpick - You didn't use the word 'crap' enough, or at all, when describing quantum woo. :-)
This video feels so good to watch when you are surrounded by quackery. Thanks for saying this out loud.
Some days it feels like the whole pseudoscience scene (including flat erath) is just a training-ground for future carreers. The rules are the same in politics, management, advertisment, .... There is ways to manipulate people and they work in any shape or form. Where is the line between quackery and fraud and why does noone seem to care?
In this regards: Thank you so much for your work good Sir. It realy helps me to understand our society which I am strangely beeing a part of.
"Frequency of WHAT?!"
-Prof. Dave, Martymer 81, and possibly every person who has a functional brain
@@Kortex42 and you will never get one.
I can’t fucking believe I spent so much time thinking particles would magically change their behavior through the simple act of a person knowing they were there and not knowing it was an issue of measurement techniques. Thanks for explaining actual science, Dave.
@@jvo1464 Sabine owns, good recommendation
@@jvo1464 yo got any other good channels like hers?
@@TheCosmicGuy0111 PBS Spacetime?
For some reason this makes me think of how so many people believe humans generally only use only 10% of their brains.
@@TheCosmicGuy0111 Science asylum
I love the fact that while watching this video I was shown an ad for astral projection 😂
the chernobyl disaster created some pretty high gamma frequencies that align with my chakras
Why didn’t the workers just think the meltdown away, are they stupid?
Hi Dave, I just want to say I feel very strongly about what you are doing debunking all these crackpots. It means a lot to me on a very personal level. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Disinformation on the internet is a plague.
YES! You are correct, Sir!
That actualised guy is fucking insane wtf
There's so much of this rubbish out there. Think a lot of folk say they understand and it works, just to be part of the crowd.
"Everything is Centimeters man, it's all made of Centimeters!"
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🙈
Everything is so greeeen!!
@@ShaylaTheMouse Now listen up, here's a story, about a guy who lives in a blue world
They've got M O L E C U L E S
Vibrations of centimeters
4:00 I had an argument with a guy who kept saying energy, and I asked him to define it. Twice.
He didn’t define it. I could, and I did.
I sleep better with Amethyst near me and feel better when I meditate... but I also sleep better when I remember to take my iron and feel better on Anti-depressants. Im not about to use rose quartz to heal my moms diabetes, but it does remind me to love myself. Its a balance that too many people dont keep, between the spiritual and the physical. Take your meds, and maybe also take time to process how you feel every so often, but the meds are more important.
But the feelings you have for your crystals are psychological, not spiritual.
"He is a third-degree black belt in the art of pseudoscientific word salad" this had me dying 😆
That was some top notch wordsmithy. I was deeply impressed as well.
Sir, as a medical doctor I want to thank you for showing how these snakeoil salesmen deceive their clients and outright put them in actual harm. Thank you for the time and effort you put into your Video, hopefully it will at least prevent that some people fall for these empty and dangerous claims.