Holograms and implicate order Implicate and explicate order

in holographic reconstruction, each region of photographic plate contains whole image

bohm employed hologram means of characterising implicate order, noting each region of photographic plate in hologram observable contains within whole three-dimensional image, can viewed range of perspectives. is, each region contains whole , undivided image. in bohm’s words:

there germ of new notion of order here. order not understood solely in terms of regular arrangement of objects (e.g., in rows) or regular arrangement of events (e.g. in series). rather, total order contained, in implicit sense, in each region of space , time. now, word implicit based on verb implicate . means fold inward ... may led explore notion in sense each region contains total structure enfolded within .

bohm noted although hologram conveys undivided wholeness, nevertheless static.

in view of order, laws represent invariant relationships between explicate entities , structures, , bohm maintained in physics, explicate order reveals within well-constructed experimental contexts as, example, in sensibly observable results of instruments. respect implicate order, however, bohm asked consider possibility instead physical law should refer order of undivided wholeness of content of description similar indicated hologram rather order of analysis of such content separate parts ... .