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524 STRIPPING THE GURUS
is to turn this approach upside down, and to regard the implicate
order as fundamental, while the explicate order is
then understood as having unfolded from the implicate order
(Bohm and Peat, 1987).
Even in the orthodox Copenhagen interpretation of quantum
theory, we have an alternating contraction and dispersion, or unfoldment
and enfoldment. For, every time the quantum wave function
is “collapsed” (by observation or whatnot) this is its sudden
contraction. After that, the wave function again begins to spread or
disperse (in “probability space” here, but still propagating via
Green’s function), until its next collapse/contraction. As such, the
existence of that basic, cyclic collapse/dispersion process in quantum
theory—and thus of “implicate”/enfolding and “explicate”/unfolding
phenomena—is not at all arguable. (Of course, the linear
nature of Schrödinger’s equation does not actually allow for such
discontinuous behavior as would be required in order for its wavesolutions
to “collapse” instantaneously [Bohm and Peat, 1987].
That, however, is a separate point/inconsistency in the accepted
view.)
[B]asically all the laws of movement in quantum mechanics
do correspond to enfoldment and unfoldment. In particular,
the relation between the wave function at one time ... and its
form at another [later] time ... is determined by the propagator
or the Green’s function....
A simple picture of the movement is that waves from the
whole space enfold into each region and that waves from
each region unfold back into the whole space....
Since all matter is now analyzed in terms of quantum
fields, and since the movements of all these fields are expressed
in terms of propagators, it is implied by current
physics that the implicate order is universal (Bohm and
Hiley, 1993; italics added).
In any case, the observable motions of particles in both Newtonian
and quantum physics are part of the same explicate order.
Thus, any attempt to associate quantum physics only with the
“more wholistic” implicate order would be woefully misled, as
Bohm himself noted:
Clearly the manifest world of common sense experience refined
where necessary with the aid of the concepts and laws