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From Bohm’s Vision of Quantum Processes to Quantum Field Theory ... to the Transactional Approach. Variations on the Theme

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The vision of quantum physics developed by David Bohm, and especially the idea of the implicit order, can be considered the true epistemological foundation of quantum field theory and the idea of a quantum vacuum that underlies the observable forms of matter, energy and space-time. Assuming the non-locality as the crucial visiting card of quantum processes, it is thus possible to arrive directly to the transactional interpretation and to the idea of a non-local quantum vacuum in which the behaviour of a subatomic particle constitutes the manifestation of more elementary creation/annihilation processes of quanta.

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Fiscaletti, D. From Bohm’s Vision of Quantum Processes to Quantum Field Theory ... to the Transactional Approach. Variations on the Theme. Found Phys 52, 51 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-022-00569-7

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