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Quantum Mechanics

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From the documentary "Atomic Physics and Reality": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFvJOZ51tmc

“The ordinary worldview is one of what could be called ‘mechanism’ in which the world is made of particles, and when they’re far apart, they do not affect each other; that is, they interact strongly when they’re close together. If they do affect each other when they’re far apart, you could always explain this, for example, by a field such as light which could carry the effect through space.

"Now, in this [EPR] case, we have a connection between these particles which is not carried by any such field, which [connection] might go over long distances. This suggests that the world is not made of separate elements [particles] but – and if you follow it through – there is a whole, an unbroken whole, that it’s possible to have all these things, over very long distances, connected as a whole, which is not analyzable into parts.

"Both quantum mechanics and relativity suggest that the world is not made of broken parts but is an unbroken whole and flowing movement. The image of that would be flowing water. If you had vortexes in this water, each vortex might be thought of as separate, but really they merge together, there’s never any real separation.

"Now, that is one image, but this experiment [with Alain] Aspect deals with a still-more fundamental wholeness, in the sense that things which are far apart are still related, deeply, or may be related deeply, in a way that is quite foreign to mechanistic concepts.”

Gary Zukav: David Bohm, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, proposes that quantum physics is, in fact, based upon a perception of a new order. According to Bohm, "We must turn physics around. Instead of starting with parts and showing how they work together (the Cartesian order) we start with the whole." Bohm's theory is compatible with Bell's theorem. Bell's theorem implies that the apparently "separate parts" of the universe could be intimately connected at a deep and fundamental level. Bohm asserts that the most fundamental level is an unbroken wholeness which is, in his words, "that-which-is." All things, including space, time, and matter are forms of that-which-is. There is an order which is enfolded into the very process of the universe, but that enfolded order may not be readily apparent." The separate parts of the universe are not, in reality, separate parts. "Parts," wrote David Bohm, "are seen to be in immediate connection, in which their dynamical relationships depend, in an irreducible way, on the state of the whole system and, indeed, on that of broader systems in which they are contained, extending ultimately and in principle to the entire universe. Thus, one is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness which denies the classical idea of analyzability of the world into separately and independently existent parts..."