ONE FAMILY PLAN
Nonlocality
Building on the premises that particles such as electrons do exist in the absence of observers and that a subquantum level still awaited discovery, "Bohm called his proposed new field the quantum potential and theorized that, like gravity, it pervaded all of space. However, unlike gravitational fields, magnetic fields, and so on, its influence did not diminish with distance. Its effects were subtle, but it was equally powerful everywhere." (Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, p 40)
"Classical science had always viewed the state of a system as a whole as merely the result of the interaction of its parts. However, the quantum potential stood this view on its ear and indicated that the behavior of the parts was actually organized by the whole. This not only took Bohr's assertion that subatomic particles are not independent 'things,' but are part of an indivisible system one step further, but even suggested that wholeness was in some ways the more primary reality."
"At the level of our everyday lives things have very specific locations, but Bohm's interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to exist. All points in space became equal to all other points in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property 'nonlocality.'" (Talbot, p 41)
"Classical science generally divides things into two categories: those that possess order in the arrangement of their parts and those whose parts are disordered, or random, in arrangement... it occurred to Bohm that maybe things that we perceive as disordered aren't disordered at all. Perhaps their order is of such an 'indefinitely high degree' that they only appear to us as random." (Talbot, p 44)
