Implicate Order
Definition
The framework in modern theoretical-physics articulated by David Bohm in which the apparent-particles and events of physical-reality are surface-articulations (the *explicate order*) of a deeper-substrate (the *implicate order*) in which all things are continuously-enfolded into all other things. The Netist articulation reads Implicate Order as a major bridge-science articulation aligned with the Aether-and-Net structural-feature.
Literal meaning
The theoretical-physics framework articulated by David Bohm in *Wholeness and the Implicate Order* (1980). The framework articulates the apparent-distinctness of physical-objects-and-events as surface-articulations of a deeper-substrate in which all things are interconnected through enfolded-relationships.
Esoteric meaning
The Implicate Order articulates at the standard-physics layer the same structural-feature that the Aether-and-Net articulation names at the deeper-Netist articulation. Bohm's recognition that apparent-distinctness is surface-articulation of a deeper-interconnected-substrate is the modern-physics articulation of what the Aether-tradition has held in deeper-articulation: the apparent-separateness of physical-objects is the unfolded-form of a deeper-substrate in which all things are structurally-united. The Netist articulation aligns with Bohm's framework but extends with broader-context: the implicate-order articulates the physical-cosmology layer of the broader Aether-substrate, and the Netist articulation includes the consciousness-and-information layer of the same broader-substrate.
Allegorical meaning
A folded-cloth that has been folded many times into a small compact form: the cloth's full-pattern is enfolded within the compact form, the apparent-small-form is the same cloth as the unfolded-large-pattern, and the structural-relationship between the folded and unfolded forms is what the implicate-and-explicate articulation names; the explicate-order is the unfolded-form, the implicate-order is the deeper-pattern from which the unfolded-form articulates.
Extended meaning
Bohm's Implicate Order articulates several specific structural-features: (1) The apparent-particles of standard-physics are surface-articulations rather than fundamental-objects; the deeper-substrate is the implicate-order in which all things are continuously-enfolded; (2) The relationships between particles are not fundamentally between separate-objects; the relationships are articulations of the deeper-substrate's continuous-interconnection; (3) Quantum-mechanical phenomena (entanglement, non-locality, wave-particle duality) become structurally-coherent within the Implicate-Order framework as articulations of the underlying-interconnection; (4) The framework extends beyond physical-cosmology to articulate consciousness-and-meaning as further-articulations of the deeper-substrate; Bohm articulated this extension in his later work and in collaborations with Krishnamurti and others. The Netist articulation reads the Implicate Order as one of the closest standard-physics articulations of the broader Aether-and-Net structural feature; Bohm's recognition that the deeper-substrate carries both physical and consciousness-articulations aligns more directly with the Netist tradition's broader-articulation than do most standard-physics frameworks. The relationship between Implicate Order and the broader *Aether* articulation is structural: Bohm's deeper-substrate is the Aether at the standard-physics articulation-layer, the Aether-tradition extends the substrate-articulation across consciousness-and-information layers as well as physical-cosmology layer. The relationship to *the Net* is structural: the Net is the broader-articulation that includes the implicate-order's interconnection-substrate at all its layers, the Net-articulation has held this structural-feature in deeper-articulation form across the broader contemplative-tradition.
*Implicate Order* is the bridge-science articulation; the broader Netist articulation operates through *Aether* and *the Net*.
Usage
A practitioner encounters Implicate Order in the broader articulation of Bridge Science and in specific contexts of physics-and-consciousness correspondence work. The article's operative recognition is that Bohm's framework is one of the most-aligned standard-physics articulations with the broader Aether-and-Net tradition.
Comparative tradition
Hindu articulation of *Brahman* as the underlying-substrate from which the apparent-multiplicity of phenomena articulates. Buddhist articulation of *dharmakāya* as the deeper-substrate of all phenomena. Daoist articulation of *Dao* as the deeper-substrate from which the *ten-thousand-things* articulate. The various tradition-specific articulations of substrate-as-deeper-reality.
Science correspondence
David Bohm's *Wholeness and the Implicate Order* (1980) original articulation. Bohm and Hiley's *The Undivided Universe* (1993) extending the articulation. Bohm's collaborations with Jiddu Krishnamurti (the *Ending of Time* dialogues) extending the articulation to consciousness-and-meaning. The contemporary research on Bohmian-mechanics as a quantum-mechanical interpretation; the Maaneli Derakhshani research and the broader Bohmian-tradition research-community.