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Whole and fragmented
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Flow Patterns - Experiments with Language and Thought
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Reality and Knowledge as a Process
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Quantum theory and hidden variables
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Quantum Theory Reveals a New Physical Order: A New Order in the History of Physics
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Quantum theory reveals a new physical order: Intrinsic and extrinsic order in physical laws.
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The universe and consciousness that fold and unfold
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“One of the most important books of our time.”
- 《Resurgence》

“Bohm’s concept of totality is fascinating not only as an explanation for the mysteries of modern physics, but also as a guide to life.”
- John Wiley, Jr., Smithsonian

“Quantum Mechanics, the Whole and the Folded Order” feels like a work in progress, aiming for the grand ideal of unifying all aspects of the world.
“The traces of these worries are the greatest charm of this book.”
- Abner Shmoni, Nature


The End of Scientific Certainty
A story about the events and their protagonists that brought about a great transformation in humanity's collective worldview in the early 20th century.

"God did not play dice." This is a famous quote from Einstein, who criticized quantum theory, which heated up the scientific world in the early 20th century.
Einstein was displeased with quantum theory, which explained the order of the universe based on chance and uncertainty.
He spent a lot of time researching quantum theory, but he never found the key.
Here is a scientist who tackled a problem that even Einstein, the 20th century's greatest scientist, could not solve, and produced plausible results.
The protagonist is David Bohm, who studied for his doctorate at the University of Berkeley under the guidance of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and worked as Einstein's fellow professor at Princeton University.
We introduce David Bohm's work, "Quantum Mechanics: The Whole and the Folded Order," which contains the solution to "Einstein's Dream" and is the first book in Korea to compile the results of a lifetime of research.

David Bohm, the physics heretic whose time has passed

David Bohm provided the crucial theory for uranium enrichment for the Manhattan Project, a group of leading scientists working during the height of World War II.
As a disciple of Oppenheimer and a colleague of Einstein, Bohm was a representative theoretical physicist of the 20th century.
However, while studying at Berkeley University, his history of joining the Communist Party and engaging in political activities was brought under the scrutiny of McCarthyism, and he was suddenly branded a communist, forcing him to live the rest of his life in exile and immigration.

Challenging "Einstein's Dream" with an Alternative Interpretation Beyond the Copenhagen Interpretation
David Bohm continues his research on the fringes of academia, presenting alternative interpretations of quantum theory.
It presents an alternative interpretation of the Copenhagen interpretation that explains quantum theory with the 'hidden variable theory' that solves the 'hidden variable', the Achilles' heel of quantum theory.
The Copenhagen School, led by Bohr and Heisenberg, explained quantum theory through uncertainty and randomness, and this became the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Although leading scientists of the time, including Einstein and Schrödinger, were not fond of the Copenhagen interpretation, they chose to accept it because they had no other reason to refute it.
【Quantum Mechanics, Whole and Folded Order】 shows a new possibility to replace the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
It contains the aspects of the 'hidden variable theory' announced by the author in 1952 and the 'quantum field theory' that further developed it, and the mathematical proof is introduced in the appendix.
The alternative interpretation of spring is recognized as a representative interpretation among numerous alternative interpretations of quantum theory, to the extent that it has been acknowledged by Professor Roger Penrose, who created the black hole theory, Bernard d'Espagnat, who established the conceptual foundation of quantum theory, and Brian Josephson, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Professor Choi Moo-young of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University said that Bohm's quantum theory interpretation is "not an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics, but rather classical mechanics as a completely different system."
Einstein's dream of logically refuting the 'uncertainty' of quantum theory, which had shaken the most mathematical field of physics, was realized by his dear colleague David Bohm.

A completely different way of understanding the universe, its whole and folded order.
To properly understand the universe, one must first have an accurate understanding of the 'theory' that describes the order that governs the universe.
In "Quantum Mechanics, the Whole and the Folded Order," David Bohm introduces "theory" (as a flow pattern, as a process, as an unfragmented whole), that is, holistic thinking.
The author, who enjoyed Einstein's favorite thought experiments, repeatedly asks questions that lead to another, realizing that each 'theory' requires its own appropriate order, and stretches his imagination in search of the 'holistic order' that governs the universe.
Based on the concept of 'inseparable whole' derived from that research process, a new concept of order, 'folded order', was discovered and its contents were contained.
'Folded order' can be easily understood by thinking of a hologram, which is the idea that the information of the whole is contained within the parts.
It explains the new concept of order not seen in quantum theory and relativity in an easy-to-understand way by extending it to consciousness and the universe through various examples.
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It is not easy to overturn the mainstream paradigm in any era.
How much time and research did it take for those who firmly believed that the sky was spinning to accept that it was not true, but that we were spinning.
When Bohm's interpretation first appeared, leading physicists of the time also branded him an eccentric physicist, calling him a "childish deviation" (Oppenheimer) and a "physical fantasy" (Einstein).
Despite criticism and antipathy from academics and scientists, the theory of spring has been studied more actively under the name of 'spring dynamics' since the latter half of the 20th century.
What is noteworthy in [Quantum Mechanics, Whole and Folded Order] is that it goes beyond studying scientific phenomena and interprets them in a philosophical sense, viewing scientific theories as a matter of worldview.
Let's meet David Bohm for who he really is, not as an unfortunate scientist born in the wrong era, but as a scientist with a love of open dialogue and a philosophical bent.