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Important Recent Developments
Physics World, New Scientist, and others have reported on the recent experiment titled Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories.
“It is a new way of looking at quantum non-locality, which vindicates the Bohm position.” – Basil Hiley
You can view the New Scientist article here.
David Bohm and the Big Bang
On account the recently published scientific paper by Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das, Cosmology from quantum potential, David Bohm and his work is being mentioned again.
Salon states: “In their paper, Ali and Das applied these Bohmian trajectories to an equation developed in the 1950s by physicist Amal Kumar”.
And see, for example, No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning.
We will take this opportunity to share some of David Bohm’s comments on the Big Bang:
“With all this in mind let us consider the current generally accepted notion that the universe, as we know it, originated in what is almost a single point in space and time from a “big bang” that happened some ten thousand million years ago. In our approach this “big bang” is to be regarded as actually just a “little ripple”. AN interesting image is obtained by considering that in the middle of the acutal ocean (i.e., on the surface of the Earth) myriads of smal waves occasionally come together fortuitously with such phase relationships that they end up in a certain small region of space, suddenly to produce a very high wave which just appears as if from nowhere and out of nothing. Perhaps something like this could happen in the immense ocean of cosmic energy, creating a sudden wave pulse, from which our “universe” would be bron. This pulse would explode outward and break up into smaller ripples that spread yet further outward to constitute our “expanding universe.” The latter would have its “space” enfolded within it as a special distinguished explicate and manifest order.” — David Bohm
“I propose something like this: Imagine an infinite sea of energy
filling empty space, with waves moving around in there, occasionally
coming together and producing an intense pulse. Let’s say one
particular pulse comes together and expands, creating our universe of
space-time and matter. But there could well be other such pulses. To
us, that pulse looks like a big bang; In a greater context, it’s a
little ripple. Everything emerges by unfoldment from the holomovement,
then enfolds back into the implicate order. I call the enfolding
process “implicating,” and the unfolding “explicating.” The implicate
and explicate together are a flowing, undivided wholeness. Every part
of the universe is related to every other part but in different degrees.” — David Bohm
The Second Version of the David Bohm Society Launches Today
We put the first version of the David Bohm Society up quickly but it was never adequate. This second version is much better but we still have a good year of work to do to bring it to where we want. Down the road when we have more funding we will make perhaps the first satisfactory version.
One of our main focuses at the moment is getting more of Bohm’s work digitized and made available. Please contact us if you have any work not listed on our website.