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out there was really a vast, resonating symphony of
wave forms, a “frequency domain” that was transformed into the world as we know
it only after it entered our senses?
    Realizing that the
solution he was seeking might lie outside the province of his own field, he
went to his physicist son for advice. His son recommended he look into the work
of a physicist named David Bohm. When Pribram did he was electrified. He not
only found the answer to his question, but also discovered that according to
Bohm, the entire universe was a hologram.

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The Cosmos as Hologram
    One can't help but be astonished at
the degree to which [Bohm] has been able to break out of the tight molds of
scientific conditioning and stand alone with a completely new and literally
vast idea, one which has both internal consistency and the logical power to
explain widely diverging phenomena of physical experience from an entirely
unexpected point of view. . . . It is a theory which is so intuitively
satisfying that many people have felt that if the universe is not the way Bohm
describes it, it ought to be.
    —John P. Briggs and F. David Peat
    Looking Glass Universe
    The path that led Bohm
to the conviction that the universe is structured like a hologram began at the
very edge of matter, in the world of subatomic particles. His interest in
science and the way things work blossomed early. As a young boy growing up in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he invented a dripless tea kettle, and his father,
a successful businessman, urged him to try to turn a profit on the idea. But after
learning that the first step in such a venture was to conduct a door-to-door
survey to test-market his invention, Bohm's interest in business waned.
    His interest in science
did not, however, and his prodigious curiosity forced him to look for new
heights to conquer. He found the most challenging height of all in the 1930s
when he attended Pennsylvania State College, for it was there that he first
became fascinated by quantum physics.
    It is an easy
fascination to understand. The strange new land that physicists had found
lurking in the heart of the atom contained things more wondrous than anything
Cortes or Marco Polo ever encountered. what made this new world so intriguing
was that everything about it appeared to be so contrary to common sense. It
seemed more like a land ruled by sorcery than an extension of the natural
world, an Alice-in-Wonderland realm in which mystifying forces were the norm
and everything logical had been turned on its ear.
    One startling discovery
made by quantum physicists was that if you break matter into smaller and
smaller pieces you eventually reach a point where those pieces—electrons,
protons, and so on—no longer possess the traits of objects. For example, most
of us tend to think of an electron as a tiny sphere or a BB whizzing around,
but nothing could be further from the truth. Although an electron can sometimes
behave as if it were a compact little particle, physicists have found that it
literally possesses no dimension. This is difficult for most of us to
imagine because everything at our own level of existence possesses dimension.
And yet if you try to measure the width of an electron, you will discover it's
an impossible task. An electron is simply not an object as we know it.
    Another discovery
physicists made is that an electron can manifest as either a particle or a
wave. If you shoot an electron at the screen of a television that's been turned
off, a tiny point of light will appear when it strikes the phosphorescent
chemicals that coat the glass. The single point of impact the electron leaves
on the screen clearly reveals the particlelike side of its nature.
    But this is not the only
form the electron can assume. It can also dissolve into a blurry cloud of
energy and behave as if it were a wave spread out over space. When an electron
manifests as a wave it can do things no particle can. If it is fired at a
barrier in which two slits