The I-Ching and the Theories of David Bohm

In 1951, the American quantum physicist David Bohm (1917-1992), wrote a textbook entitled Quantum Theory. In it he presented a clear account of the orthodox, Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, which was formulated in the 1920s by Danish physicist Niels Bohr and the German Werner Heisenberg; it is still highly influential today.

But even before Bohm's book was published, he began to have doubts about the assumptions underlying the conventional approach. He had difficulty accepting that subatomic particles had no objective existence and took on definite properties only when physicists tried to observe and measure them. He also had difficulty believing that the quantum world was characterized by absolute indeterminism and chance, and that things just happened for no reason whatsoever.

He began to suspect that there might be deeper causes behind the apparently random and crazy nature of the subatomic world.

Following the model of David Bohm, the Tao (Chinese: 道 Dao) resembles his explicate order (the physical universe we call "reality") and what he calls implicate order (the unlimited world of future potentialities and possibilities out of which reality manifests).

Tao is often translated as "the Way" or "the Path". It is the principle of change and becoming; it decides the defining modalities of reality and what in the not yet manifest realm of future possibilities as a potential reality holds. This also explains why Richard Wilhelm choose to translate Tao with "the Meaning" - the British Sinologist James Legge (1815-1897) chose the Greek philosophical term "Logos" - to illustrate that the way of all becoming, being and passing away is not random at all, but follows patterns established by the Tao.

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