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Bohm’s formulation is today accepted as a legitimate reformulation and reinterpretation of Quantum Mechanics (QM), and one that allows a description of many a typical quantum phenomenon in terms of particle trajectories in the space-time continuum, even though these trajectories must be thought as determined by the joint action of the classical and of a non-local quantum potential (QP). The description in terms of the QP has permitted a suggestive visualization of quantum phenomena such as double slit experiments (Philippidis, Dewdney and Hiley 1979; for a discussion of a wider class of phenomena, see Vigier 1987, Dewdney 1987). Figures depicting the latter have deservedly become a favourite piece in presentations of the subject. The QP formulation has also provided us with a new ontological view of apparent non-local interactions in terms of a new quality of wholeness. All this is beautifully illustrated in the recent book of Bohm and Hiley (to be quoted hereafter as BH 1993 1 ).
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Bergia, S. (1997). Stable Orbits as Limit Cycles. In: Jeffers, S., Roy, S., Vigier, JP., Hunter, G. (eds) The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5682-0_26
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