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APPENDIX 529
[T]his enfoldment and unfoldment takes place not only in the
movement of the electromagnetic field but also in that of
other fields, such as the electronic, protonic, sound waves,
etc. There is already a whole host of such fields that are
known, and any number of additional ones, as yet unknown,
that may be discovered later. Moreover, the movement is
only approximated by the classical concept of fields (which is
generally used for the explanation of how the hologram
works). More accurately, these fields obey quantum-mechanical
laws, implying the properties of discontinuity and nonlocality
(Bohm, 1980).
In no way, then, was the holographic structure of physical reality
merely an appealing metaphor grafted onto quantum theory
by Bohm.
Even aside from that, the overall idea of there being a holographic
nature to reality is most certainly supported by recent
physics, in particular in the realm of superstring or M-theory—the
physicists’ best hope for a “Theory of Everything”:
[Dr. Juan] Maldacena’s work ... supports a hot new theory
that the universe is holographic.... In the Maldacena model,
the four-dimensional [quantum] field theory can be thought
of as a holographic projection of the five-dimensional string
theory (Johnson, 1998).
[I]n certain cases, string theory embodies the holographic
principle (Greene, 2000).
Maldacena’s work regarding the holographic structure of
quantum gravity in superstring theory is by now “a firmly established
gravity/gauge theory” (Halbersma, 2002). Between that and
Bohm’s ideas, then, it would be difficult for anyone to confidently
assert that the physical universe is not holographic in its structure.
Whenever we are considering the nature of holograms in general,
however, the following misunderstanding seems to invariably
come up:
In the hologram, the sum total of the parts is contained in
each part (Wilber, 1982).