David Bohm

Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption and explaining its basic meaning. With clarity and grace, he also reveals the limited truth of some of the "common sense" assumptions which make it difficult for us to appreciate its full implications.With a new foreword by Basil Hiley, a close colleague of David Bohm's, The Special Theory of Relativity is an indispensable addition to the work of one of greatest physicists and thinkers of the twentieth century.

In the The Undivided Universe, David Bohn and Basil Hiley present a radically different approach to quantum theory. They develop an interpretation of quantum mechanics which gives a clear, intuitive understanding of its meaning and in which there is a coherent notion of the reality of the universe without assuming a fundamental role for the human observer. With the aid of new concepts such as active information together with non-locality, they provide a comprehensive account of all the basic features of quantum mechanics, including the relativistic domain and quantum field theory. It is shown that, with the new approach, paradoxical or unsatisfactory features associated with the standard approaches, such as the wave-particle duality and the collapse of the wave function, do not arise. Finally, the authors make new suggestions and indicate some areas in which one may expect quantum theory to break down in a way that will allow for a test.The Undivided Universe is an important book especially because it provides a different overall world view which is neither mechanistic nor reductionist. This view will ultimately have radical implications not only in physics but also in our general approach to all areas of life.

In Thought as a System, best-selling author David Bohm takes as his subject the role of thought and knowledge at every level of human affairs, from our private reflections on personal identity to our collective efforts to fashion a tolerable civilization. Elaborating upon principles of the relationship between mind and matter first put forward in Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Professor Bohm rejects the notion that our thinking processes neutrally report on what is ‘out there’ in an objective world. He explores the manner in which thought actively participates in forming our perceptions, our sense of meaning and our daily actions. He suggests that collective thought and knowledge have become so automated that we are in large part controlled by them, with a subsequent loss of authenticity, freedom and order. 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. This is a transcription of a seminar held in Ojai, California from 31 November to 2 December 1990. It has been edited by Professor Bohm.

First published in 1995. Bohm, one of the foremost scientific thinkers of our time, and Hiley present a completely original approach to quantum theory which will alter our understanding of the world and reveal that a century of modern physics needs to be reconsidered.

How can science, when it is based on a narrow perspective of life, ever understand the essence of natural problems since they occur in a much wider context? In Science, Order & Creativity, David Bohm and F. David Peat present a compelling argument that science, in fact, cannot hope to provide answers when its approach is narrow and fragmented from other disciplines such as philosophy, art, and religion. A revolutionary approach to scientific inquiry, Science, Order & Creativity is an accessible entry into the extraordinary work of one of the century's greatest thinkers, David Bohm.

First published in 1987. In Unfolding Meaning, the author, one of the most provocative and original thinkers of our time, argues that there are other ways of thinking to bring about a different, more harmonious reality. Our fragmented, mechanistic notion of order derives from the modem conception that our earth is only part, not - as it was with the Greeks - the centre, of the immense universe of material bodies. The implications of this idea permeate modem science and technology today and also our general attitude to life.

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.

Denne korte bog fremsætter den verdensberømte fysiker David Bohms teorier om dialogens formåen. Bohm mener at behovet for konstruktiv dialog aldrig har været større. Med et væld af kommunikationsmetoder i bagagen, fortjener vores kommunikationsmåder også at blive plejet. Med denne bog, pointerer Bohm, trodser læseren vores tids tendenser til kynisme, og opnår dermed potentiale til at udrettet exceptionelle ting. Dialogens deltagere har potentiale til at forny deres formål ved at dele deres forforståelse og antagelser. Netop dette potentiale, der er gemt i mennesket, ligger også til grund for Bohms dialogforståelse. For at skabe forandring må vi forstå hinanden og vores forudindtagethed. Ved at blive bedre til at lytte og tilsidesætte vores fordomme, kan læseren overkomme komplekse problemer i organisationer, forretninger og samfund.

Aldri har det vært mer påkrevet å kunne lytte til hverandre og kommunisere med hverandre. Aldri har vi hatt mer komplekse problemer å takle i organisasjoner, i næringsliv og politikk og i samfunnet generelt. Den verdenskjente filosofen og fysikeren David Bohm (1917-1992) - en av våre mest nyskapende tenkere i siste halvdel av det tjuende århundret - var smertelig klar over dette og arbeidet i flere tiår med kreativ dialog som metode til god kommunikasjon. Her finner vi * den frie flyt av tanker og meninger * hvordan vi lytter og gir rom * hvordan vi får innsikt i underliggende antakelser og forutsetninger * hvordan vi klarlegger intensjoner og meningsinnhold og utforsker nye muligheter og en rekke andre sider ved dialogen, levende og klart fremstilt.