Well, between Albert Einstein, Danish physicist Niels Bohr, Karl Pribram Ph.D, and David Bohm, Ph.D who all have their own ideas and reasearch, one just has to pick a theory and agree or disagree.

Bohr's conclusion was that particle's properties don't exist until they are observed.

Einstein found this particularly objectionable because when combined with another of quantum physic's findings it implies that subatomic particles were interconnected in a way Einstein simply didn't believe was possible.

In 1935 he and his colleagues published a now famous paper entitled "Can Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?" In it they explained why the existence of such twin particles proved that Bohr could not possibly be correct. (I won't go into the details here as I am sure you are familiar with the paper or you can read it yourself.)

Bohr remained unperturbed by Einstein's argument. He offered another explanation. If subatomic particles do not exist until they are observed, then one could no longer think of them as independent "things." Thus Einstein was basing his argument on and error when he viewed twin particles as separate. They were part of an indivisible system, and it was meaningless to think of them otherwise.

In time, most physicists sided with Bohr and became content that his interpretation was correct. One factor that contributed to Bohr's triumph was that quantum physics had proved so spectacularly successful in predicting phenomena.

Bohr's view that subatomic systems are indivisible has profound implications for the nature of reality. Ironically these implications were ignored, and once again the potential importance of interconnectedness was swept under the carpet.

Enter David Bohm Ph.D

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Bohm called his proposed new field the quantum potential and theorized that, like gravity, it pervaded all of space. However, unlike gravitational fields, magnetic fields, and so on, its influence >>>>>>did<<<<<< diminish with distance. Its effects were subtle, but it was equally powerful everywhere. Bohms published his alternative interpretation of quantum theory in 1952.

was the above >>did<< a type-o ? should it be did not or didn't?

Thanks, I did leave out NOT. I added it above.

I believe that there may be groups of people in the world who are genetically descended from yeti.

Who cares?

ok, now it makes sense, you've gotta learn to copy and paste just to make funch mad if nothing else

Who cares?

David Bohm

During his early years as a physicist Bohm also accepted Bohr's position, but he remained puzzled by the lack of interest Bohr and his followers displayed toward interconnectedness. (Originally Bohr's argument was only meant to counter Einstein's claims and was not focused on interconnectedness.)

Bohm's work in plasmas lead him to an amazing discovery. A plasma is a gas containing a high density of electrons and positive ions, atoms that have a positive charge.

To his amazement he found that once they were in a plasma, electrons stopped behaving like individuals and started behaving as if they were part of a larger and interconnected whole. Although their individual movements appeared random, vast numbers of electrons were able to produce effects that were surprisingly well organized. Like some amoeboid creature, the plasma constantly regenerated itself and enclosed all impurities in a wall in the same way that a biological organism might encase a foreign substance in a cyst. So he frequently had the impression the electron sea was "alive."

In 1947 Bohm accepted an assistant professorship at Princeton University, an indication of how highly he was regarded, and there he extended his Berkeley research to the study of electrons in metals. Once again he found that the seemingly haphazard movement of individual electrons managed to produce highly organized overall effects. Like the plasmas he had studied at Berkley, these were no longer situations involving two particles, each behaving as if it knew what the other was doing, but entire oceans of particles, each behaving as if it knew what untold trillions of others were doing. Bohm called such collective movements of electrons plasmons, and their discovery established his reputation as a physicist.

But both his sense of the importance of interconnectedness as well as his growing dissatisfaction with several of the other prevailing views in physics caused Bohm to become increasingly troubled by Bohr's interpretation of quantum theory.

He decided to to improve his understanding by writing a text book. (Quantum Theory)

But he was still not comfortable with what quantum physic was saying and he sent copies of his book to both Bohr and Einstein to ask their opinions. He got no answer from Bohr but Einstein contacted him and said that since they were both at Princeton they should meet and discuss the book.

What turned into a six-month series of spirited conversations, Einstein enthusiastically told Bohm that he had never seen quantum theory presented so clearly. Nonetheless, he admitted he was still every bit as dissatisfied with the theory as was Bohm.

What bothered them was that it provided no real way of conceiving of the basic structure of the world.

Bohm decided that there had to be an alternative view.

Bohm decided that particles such as electrons do exist in the absence of observers. He also assumed that there was a deeper reality beneath Bohr's inviolable wall, a subquantum level that still awaited discovery by science.

Building on these premises he discovered that simply by proposing the existence of new kind of field on this subquantum level he was able to explain the finding of quantum physics as well as Bohr could.

Bohm called his proposed new field the quantum potential and theorized that, like gravity, it pervaded all of space. However, unlike gravitational fields, magnetic fields, and so on, its influence did NOT diminish with distance. Its effects were subtle, but it was equally powerful everywhere. Bohms published his alternative interpretation of quantum theory in 1952.

Reactions to his new approach was mainly negative. In short, Bohr's point of view had become so entrenched in physics that Bohms alternative was looked upon as little more than heresy.

But Bohm remained unswerving in his conviction that there was more to reality than Bohr's view allowed.

I am going to cut it short here, but Bohm's research ultimately lead him to the holographic model of reality.

jb

I edited becuase I really want to hi-light this question and not get off track...

JB are you trying to say something about quantum entanglement?

You are always alluding to the observer effect but always refer to it like the particle doesn't exist until its observed, but that is incorrect, Bohr did not believe that.

I am still trying to understand how you think QM directly relates to energy fields and what these energy fields are able to do, how do they effect things?

Plasma is well know, those effects are very well known, and not attributed to anything mystical.