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The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Thought Experiment.
 Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen thought up this
 experiment in 1935. It was later modified to measure spin states, by
David Bohm. Contrary to the expectations of its originators, the experiment
demonstrated the apparent transfer of information from one point to another
at a speed faster than that of light, without any known means by which that
 information could be transmitted.  Very simply the experiment involved aiming
 a laser-beam from point A to point B. At B the beam is split to travel to the
right to point C, any number of kilometers away; and to the left to point D,
also far distant.  At point C, the beam is deliberately altered in a certain way.
 Then the seemingly impossible happens: the beam at point D is found to have
altered in the opposite way, and instantaneously. [1]
This phenomenon was confirmed by Alain Aspect in 1982 [ 2] at the University of
Paris.

David Bohm's Holographic Universe.
David Bohm believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does
not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm,
a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. [3]  To understand why Bohm makes
this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms.  A
hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. Unlike
 normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information
possessed by the whole. This suggested to Bohm another way of understanding
Aspect's discovery.  Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to
 remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them
 is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth,
 but because their separateness is an illusion. “In terms of the [deeper and perhaps
 ultimate] implicate order one must say that everything is enfolded into everything”.
 He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual
 entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something. [ 4 ]

It has an important bearing on our thinking about synchronicity, when Bohm
 writes, “each part contains information about the whole object”.
In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed
as fundamentals. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be
 possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and
pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past. What else the superhologram
contains is an open-ended question.

[ 1] Nielsen, Krill and Laflamme, Nature Nov. 1998 Further confirmed the
 phenomenon by finding a use for it . “Quantum Teleportation (or pdf).
         Quantum mechanics provides spectacular new information processing
abilities.  One of the most unexpected is a procedure called quantum
teleportation suggested by [Charles H.] Bennett et al.. that allows the quantum
 state of a system to be transported from one location to another, without
 moving through the intervening space. We have implemented the full quantum
 teleportation operation over inter-atomic distances using liquid state nuclear
 magnetic resonance (NMR).  The inclusion of the final stage enables for the
 first time a teleportation implementation which may be used as a subroutine
 in larger quantum computations, or for quantum-communication.

[2]  Reality - the Holographic Universe - 03/16/97 This file was posted as
 REALITY.ASC on the KeelyNet BBS on February 24, 1991.
[3]  David Bohm: Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980, pp. 177 ff
[4]  ibid. p. 179: “one begins with the undivided wholeness of the universe,
and the task of science is to derive the parts through abstraction from the
 whole, explaining them as approximately separable, stable and recurrent…”
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