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15. NONLOCALITY AND THEIMPLICATE ORDER

[THE IMPLICATE ORDER IS] NOT NECESSARILY A DESCRIPTION OF REALITY BUT A LANGUAGE, AN INNER LANGUAGE, WHERE YOU CANNOT ASSOCIATE EACH WORD TO A THING. IT’S MORE LIKE MUSIC– David Bohm

At Bristol University in England, Bohm and Yakir demonstrated a new and important way in which the quantum world transcends the old physics of classical mechanics. They argued that even quite distant objects can affect quantum processes, an observation that is now known in physics as “nonlocality,” or the Aharanov-Bohm Effect (AB Effect) – the work that the scientific journal Nature said was worthy of a Nobel Prize.

In the mid 1950s, one of Bohm’s students encountered this prior work and was led in 1964 to propose what is now ...