The Tibetan Master Sogyal Rinpoche once remarked that there are striking parallels between Bohm’s model of the universe and the Buddhist *bardo* teachings, as they both “spring from a vision of wholeness.”īohm had doubts about the theory of quantum mechanics and its ability to fully explain the workings of the universe. Interestingly, his ideas have been received more enthusiastically by the arts community than by the scientific establishment. He died of heart attack in London on October 27, 1992, aged 74.ĭavid Bohm’s influence extends beyond physics to embrace philosophy, psychology, religion, art, and linguistics.
In England he was a professor of physics at Bristol University and later worked as a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of London. This whole affair, however, upset his career prospects at Princeton and his contract wasn’t renewed. Bohm left the United States, first moving to Brazil, then to Israel, and later to England. For this he was arrested and charged with contempt of Congress but was later acquitted by a jury. Pleading the Fifth Amendment, Bohm refused to testify. While in Princeton, at the beginning of the McCathyism period of anti-communist hysteria, Bohm was called to appear before the Un-American Activities Committee to testify against fellow scientists. Einstein found Bohm to be a kindred spirit, a like-minded colleague with whom he could have fascinating conversations about the nature of the universe. In 1947, he became an assistant professor at Princeton University, where he met Albert Einstein. Oppenheimer had to certify before the faculty of the university that Bohm had indeed successfully completed his research. As a result, Bohm was denied access to his own work and wasn’t allowed to write or defend his thesis. However, while working on his doctorate at Berkeley, he discovered “the scattering calculations of collisions of protons and deuterons” which was used by the Manhattan Project team, and was immediately classified. This prevented him from getting a clearance to work with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos to produce the first atomic bomb during the World War II. While at Berkeley, Bohm, an idealist, became involved in politics and he was labeled a communist by the FBI led by J. He went to Pennsylvania State University to study physics, and later to the University of California at Berkeley to work on his PhD thesis with J.Robert Oppenheimer. But if you cut up the hologram into smaller parts, each part will contain a smaller, blurrier, but exact version of the whole picture.ĭavid Bohm was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1917. You will need to use your jigsaw puzzle skills to put the picture together again in order to see the original image. If you cut up a regular photograph into smaller pieces, you will end up with each piece as a separate part of the whole. The difference between an ordinary photograph and a hologram (apart from the way it’s made) is in the part/whole relationship. When the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the photographed object appears. The second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the interference pattern is captured on the recording medium. To make a hologram, a laser is used to illuminate the physical object. The word has Greek roots, “holos” meaning whole, and “gramma” meaning message. If this sounds more like philosophy than science, remember that until relatively recently, people researching the natural world were called “natural philosophers” and the words “scientist” and “physicist” were coined by William Whewell, only in the 19th century. But let’s get to the title of this piece, the “holographic universe.” What is a hologram?Ī hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. The underlying premise behind these various titles is the idea that at a deep level all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected. Scientists still speculate about parallel universes. Copyright © Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltdīrilliant minds have given the universe many names – “the Self-Aware Universe” (Amit Goswami), “the Magic Universe” (Nigel Calder), “the Looking Glass Universe” (John Briggs and David Peat), “the Conscious Universe” (Dean Radin), and “the Elegant Universe” (Brian Green).
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