“David Joseph Bohm's metaphysical views do not have broad acceptance in contemporary academic physics or philosophy.”

Bohmian mechanics has never been widely accepted by physicists. Since it is not part of the standard physics curriculum, many physicists—probably the majority—are simply unfamiliar with the theory and how it works.

Bohmian mechanics has never been widely accepted by physicists. … Since it is not part of the standard physics curriculum, many physicists—probably the majority—are simply unfamiliar with the theory and how it works.

David Bohm’s notion of implicate order, while relatively well-known, is often said to be difficult to understand, and is almost completely absent in contemporary discussions in philosophy of quantum theory and relativity.

David Bohm’s notion of implicate order, while relatively well-known, is often said to be difficult to understand, and is almost completely absent in contemporary discussions in philosophy of quantum theory and relativity.

The theory still left open questions, such as the strange features of the new notion of quantum potential, the difficulty of a physical interpretation of a multidimensional wave-field, and the puzzling property of non-locality (Myrwold, 2003, pp. 9–21; Norsen, 2010, p. 1883; Ney, 2013, pp. 36–44; Pylkkänen, 2007, pp. 388–390; Pylkkänen et al., 2017, p. 241).

David Bohm has often been considered unable to understand the meaning of the quantum revolution as well as its radical metaphysical implications. Similarly, his pilot-wave theory was negatively portrayed as an attempt to restore a classical and deterministic Weltanschauung. … These examples indicate that the opposition to the pilot-wave approach was for the most part not based on scientific grounds.

In recent literature, proponents of Bohm's theory of quantum mechanics argue that it offers a possibility to give an ontological account of quantum phenomena, thereby basing quantum physics on solid foundations and restoring realism in quantum mechanics. … At the same time, it is well known that in his later years, Bohm developed a strong interest in spiritualism and eastern mysticism, and in this context drew very broad, speculative and strongly non-classical implications from quantum mechanics.

Bell and Bernstein also argue convincingly that the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics should be part of any college curriculum on the subject. … Comprehensive discussions of Bohmian mechanics can be found everywhere in the literature. … It is clear that this mechanics is not the only one describing quantum mechanics in terms of trajectories but maybe it is becoming more and more known.

I think it is considerations like these that are the biggest obstacle in the way of a general acceptance of Bohmian mechanics.

Originally proposed to bypass the limitations imposed by von Neumann’s theorem on the impossibility of hidden-variable models in quantum mechanics, it faced strong opposition from the outset. Over time, however, its use in tackling specific problems across various branches of physics has led to a gradual shift in attitude, turning the early resistance into a more moderate acceptance. … The original hidden-variable idea has gradually faded from its framework, giving way to a more pragmatic approach that treats it as a suitable analytical and computational tool.

The paper investigates David Bohm’s philosophy of science as a form of _fallibilist realism_ that underpins his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics Bohm (Physical Review, 85, 166–179, 1952a); (Physical Review, 85, 180–193, 1952b); (Foundations of Physics, 14, 255–274, 1984); (A realist view of quantum theory.

Bohm's proposals have at times been dismissed largely on the basis of such tenets. His paradigm is generally opposed to reductionism, and some view it as a form of ontological holism. On this, Bohm noted of prevailing views among physicists that "the world is assumed to be constituted of a set of separately existent, indivisible, and unchangeable 'elementary particles', which are the fundamental 'building blocks' of the entire universe ... there seems to be an unshakable faith among physicists that either such particles, or some other kind yet to be discovered, will eventually make possible a complete and coherent explanation of everything"

Bohm’s (1980, 1993) reflections on quantum mechanics led him to adopt a more general holism. He believed that not just quantum object and apparatus, but any collection of quantum objects by themselves, constitute an indivisible whole.

In 1952, David Bohm proposed a deterministic, ‘hidden variables’ quantum theory that reproduces all the observable predictions of orthodox quantum mechanics … While it may be very difficult, or even impossible, to reconcile Bohm's theory with relativity, as is not difficult to see from the above discussion, the type of non-locality that the minimal Bohm theory postulates in the EPR/B experiment does not seem more radical than the non-locality postulated by the orthodox interpretation and the GRW/Pearle collapse models.

Bohmian mechanics is widely seen as a deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics.

The great majority of physicists continue to subscribe to this view, despite the fact that just such a deterministic theory, accounting for all of the phe­ nomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, was proposed by David Bohm more than four decades ago and has arguably been around almost since the inception of quantum mechanics itself.

The idea that mental features are a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the world is the ancient doctrine of panpsychism. It has seen a remarkable revival in recent philosophical work (see, e.g., [49,50,51,52]).

In Section 3, we discuss the “mainstream” current interpretation of the dBB theory, i.e., the so-called “nomological” interpretation of Dürr, Goldstein, and Zanghì (DGZ) [17,18]. We criticize this interpretation and show its physical limitations.

David Bohm's developing postmodern thought (combining precision and wholeness) is seen to contain two tendencies. One is a vision of “underlying wholeness,” in which all causation is vertical, and the implicate‐explicate relation is ubiquitous. This provides a possible solution to certain problems, but creates many others involving freedom, causation, and time.

In the early 1950s, Bohm's causal quantum theory of hidden variables was mostly negatively received, with a widespread tendency among physicists to systematically ignore both Bohm personally and his ideas.

The article points out that the modern formulation of Bohm’s quantum theory, known as Bohmian mechanics, is committed only to particles’ positions and a law of motion.

According to Bohm the whole scientific description of the Universe is governed by fragmentation of our perception of what reality is.

David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics yields a quantum potential, Q. In his early work, the effects of Q are understood in causal terms as acting through a real (quantum) field which pushes particles around. In his later work (with Basil Hiley), the causal understanding of Q appears to have been abandoned.

This is an exposition and critique of physicist David Bohm's theory of wholeness and the implicate order in light of the wider emerging postmodern consciousness.

David Bohm (born Dec. 20, 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Penn., U.S.—died Oct. 27, 1992, London, Eng.) was an American-born British theoretical physicist who developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics.

One of the more radical ideas to have emerged in recent metaphysics of quantum theory is wave function realism, according to which the fundamental spatial framework of the world is one of very many dimensions. At first sight this idea sounds similar to the notion of a multidimensional implicate order the physicist David Bohm proposed on the basis of quantum theory in the 1980s.