Bohm
Proper noun
Meaning
Bohm
A surname from German.
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After publishing a popular textbook on Quantum Mechanics that adhered entirely to the Copenhagen orthodoxy, Bohm was persuaded by Einstein to take a critical look at von Neumann's theorem.
As of the 1980s, the theoretical physics group at Birkbeck College around David Bohm and Basil Hiley has been developing algebraic approaches to quantum theory that build on Sauter and Riesz' identification of spinors with minimal left ideals.
Bohm himself in 1953 presented an extension of the theory satisfying the Dirac equation for a single particle.
A theory by Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das adds quantum mechanical corrections (using Bohm trajectories) to general relativistic geodesics.
Bohm, a St. John native, lived on the East Coast before returning to the area and moving to Valparaiso two years ago.
Bohm is clear that this theory is non-deterministic (the work with Hiley includes a stochastic theory).