David Bohm, plasma and society

PLASMA IN METALS www.THEBOHMDOCUMENTARY.ORG PLASMA, ONE OF THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL STATES OF THE MATTER, IS A COLLECTION OF FREE ELECTRONS MOVING WITHIN A POSITIVELY CHARGED METAL LATTICE. BOHM APPLIED PLASMA THEORY TO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AREA: METALS ATOMS IN A METAL ARRANGE THEMSELVES IN A REGULAR LATTICE PATTERN, LEAVING THEIR OUTER ELECTRONS RELATIVELY FREE. MOVING THROUGH THE LATTICE, THESE ELECTRONS BEHAVE LIKE A GAS ВОНМ ТHOUGHT THIS GAS OF ELECTRONS INSIDE OF A METAL HAD A PLASMALIKE NATURE force BUT IN A PLASMA, THE OTHER CHARGED PLASMA B A PARTICLES REARRANGE THEMSELVES TO SHIELD OUT THIS LONG-RANGE SOCIETY distance WITH FREE ELECTRONS INTERACTION: IN A VACUUM, INTERACTION EACH CHARGED PARTICLE BETWEEN ELECTRONS INTERACTS WITH ITS CONTINUES EVEN AT GREAT DISTANCE A NEIGHBOUR ONLY OVER A SHORT RANGE. AN ELECTRON IN A PLASMA IS ABLE TO MOVE AS AN INDIVIDUAL IN A FREE, RANDOM WAY. EACH INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES PERFECT FREEDOM WHILE SERVING THE COMMON GOOD BUT LONG-RANGE INTERACTION HAS NOT ENTIRELY VANISHED: THE EXTENT TO WHICH YOU ARE IT IS ONLY SHIELDED BY THE LARGE A MEMBER OF A COLLECTIVE, NUMBER OF CHARGED PARTICLES. YOU HAVE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM (LIKE AN ELECTRON IN A PLASMA, WHICH IS SHIELDED FROM OTHER PARTICLES' ATTRACTION) IT IS THE HIDDEN LONG-RANGE INTERACTIONS THAT ENABLE THE PLASMA TO BEHAVE IN A COHERENT WAY. BOHM THOUGHT MARXIST SOCIETY WAS THE IDEAL FOR HUMANITY A PLASMA FUNCTIONS IN A COLLECTIVE WAY, OSCILLATING AS A WHOLE. YET IT IS BUILT OUT OF PARTICLES, EACH OF WHICH MOVES FREELY WITH ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL MOVEMENT. PLASMA IS THE PERFECT METAPHOR FOR A MARXIST SOCIETY