Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Author: David Bohm

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780812210026

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In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.


Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Author: David Bohm

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-12

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1134438729

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David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy, Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the nature of reality.


David Bohm's Critique of Modern Physics

David Bohm's Critique of Modern Physics

Author: Chris Talbot

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-30

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 3030455378

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In the letters contained in this book, David Bohm argues that the dominant formal, mathematical approach in physics is seriously flawed. In the 1950s and 60s, Bohm took a direction unheard of for a professor of theoretical physics: while still researching in physics, working among others with Yakir Aharanov and later Jeffrey Bub, he also spent time studying “metaphysics”—such as Hegel’s dialectics and Indian panpsychism. 50 years on, questions raised about the direction and philosophical assumptions of theoretical physics show that Bohm’s arguments still have contemporary relevance.


The Special Theory of Relativity

The Special Theory of Relativity

Author: David Bohm

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780415148092

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The book presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole. By showing that the concepts of this theory are interrelated to form a unified totality David Bohm supplements some of the more specialist courses which have tended to give students a fragmentary impression of the logical and conceptual nature of physics as a whole.


Infinite Potential

Infinite Potential

Author: F. David Peat

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1996-11-13

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Work that he made Bohm his close collaborator and friend. But Bohm the scientist was also Bohm the courageous human being. Born in a small town in Pennsylvania, he began his career as an American physicist, but was forced to give up his U.S. citizenship and flee America's borders by "Tail Gunner Joe" McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunters. This book captures the suspense of Bohm's steadfast refusal to bow before McCarthy's inquisitors and betray his colleagues, and the.


Thought as a System

Thought as a System

Author: David Bohm

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780415119801

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In conversations with fifty seminar participants in Ojai, California, David Bohm offers a radical perspective on an underlying source of human conflict, and inquires into the possibility of individual and collective transformation.


The Essential David Bohm

The Essential David Bohm

Author: Lee Nichol

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-27

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1134506562

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There are few scientists of the twentieth century whose life's work has created more excitement and controversy than that of physicist David Bohm (1917-1992). For the first time in a single volume, The Essential David Bohm offers a comprehensive overview of Bohm's original works from a non-technical perspective. Including three chapters of previously unpublished material, and a forward by the Dalai Lama, each reading has been selected to highlight some aspect of the implicate order process, and to provide an introduction to one of the most provocative thinkers of our time.


What Is Real?

What Is Real?

Author: Adam Becker

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0465096069

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"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's solipsistic and poorly reasoned Copenhagen interpretation. Indeed, questioning it has long meant professional ruin, yet some daring physicists, such as John Bell, David Bohm, and Hugh Everett, persisted in seeking the true meaning of quantum mechanics. What Is Real? is the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for truth. "An excellent, accessible account." --Wall Street Journal "Splendid. . . . Deeply detailed research, accompanied by charming anecdotes about the scientists." --Washington Post


David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women

David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women

Author: Chris Talbot

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3319554921

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The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956. They provide a background to his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Marxist philosophy that inspired his scientific work in quantum theory, probability and statistical mechanics. In his letters, Bohm reveals the ideas that led to his ground breaking book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics. The political arguments as well as the acute personal problems contained in these letters help to give a rounded, human picture of this leading scientist and twentieth century thinker.


Bohm-Biederman Correspondence

Bohm-Biederman Correspondence

Author: Charles Biederman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1134716915

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"It was sheer chance that I encountered David Bohm's writing in 1958 ... I knew nothing about him. What struck me about his work and prompted my initial letter was his underlying effort to seek for some larger sense of reality, which seemed a very humanized search." - Charles Biederman, from the foreword of the book This book marks the beginning of a four thousand page correspondence between Charles Biederman, founder of Constructivism in the 1930s, and David Bohm the prestigious physicist known for his interpretation of quantum theory. Available for the first time, we are given a rare opportunity to read through and engage in a remarkable transatlantic, intellectual discussion on art and science, creativity and theory.