The Philosophy of Wholeness and the General and New Concept of Order

Abstract

Quantum mechanics is one of the two fundamental revolutions in physics in the twentieth century. Quantum theory is the most predictively accurate theory in history. However, there remain many open foundational questions concerning the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the measurement of a quantum system probe and the notion of reality or belief among others. In this paper we discuss Bohm and Penrose’s work to deal with the foundational questions of “quantum physics” and the “nature of reality”. We present the essential bases of quantum mechanics that lead to the understanding of the quantum object, the notion of entanglement and Bell’s inequalities. The emphasis is first on geometric interpretations of quantum probabilities and Bell’s inequalities and then we take up the philosophical bases proposed by Bohm and Penrose which are inseparable from their thinking as a physicist and mathematical-physicist.