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Many physicists trying to understand the true
nature of the Universe have proposed that it is
holistic
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Albert Einstein (after Mach)
- mass of particle = f(sum(mass of
all particles))
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Geoffrey Chew (bootstrap theory)
- "every particle consists of all
other particles"
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David Bohm ('Wholenes and the Implicate
Order')
- Unfortunately, these ideas are no longer
'fashionable'.
- Nevertheless, Henri Bortoft, whilst working on the
problem of wholeness in quantum theory with David Bohm,
discovered in Goethe's 'way of seeing' an understanding
of the wholeness of nature that coincided with that of
Bohm.
- Most importantly, Bortoft discovered in Goethe a
practical scientific approach able to unfold the
enfolded 'being' of nature, to enable an understanding
of its reality.
- Goethe's method is an hermeneutic phenomenology
(also known as phenomenological hermeneutics) - a
reading of the language of the forms and processes of
nature.
Bortoft, H. 'The Wholeness of Nature', New York,
Lindisfarne Books, 1996.
