[catawbasam]

re "only to the universe as a whole"--

“The etymology of the word ‘universe’ can be traced back to the use of the Old French univers, in the twelfth century, which derives from the earlier Latin universum. This word is created from unus, meaning ‘one’, and ‘versus’, the past participle of the verb vertere, meaning ‘to turn, rotate, roll or change’. So we have a literal meaning of everything ‘turned into one’ or ‘rolled into one’.” from John D. Barrow’s “The Book of Universes.”

Sounds like Bohm is taking the 'uni' in universe seriously, while the paper starts by assuming there is no fundamental unity in the universe.

[Koshkin]

The Latin word may have been invented less than a thousand years ago: "...dicuntur universum sive omne : quia universum est unum versum in omnia..."