Diva Diva A diva (; ) is a celebrated female singer; a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and by extension in theatre, cinema and popular music. The meaning of "diva" is closely related to that of "prima donna". The word entered the English language in the late 19th century. It is derived from the Italian noun "diva", a female deity. The plural of the word in English is "divas"; in Italian, "dive" . The basic sense of the term is "goddess", the feminine of the Latin word "divus" (Italian "divo"), someone deified after death, or Latin "deus",
What the Bleep Do We Know!? "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" have described distinct assertions made in the film as pseudoscience. Lisa Randall refers to the film as "the bane of scientists". Amongst the assertions in the film that have been challenged are that water molecules can be influenced by thought (as popularized by Masaru Emoto), that meditation can reduce violent crime rates, and that quantum physics implies that "consciousness is the ground of all being." The film was also discussed in a letter published in "Physics Today" that challenges how physics is taught, saying teaching fails to "expose the mysteries physics has encountered [and]