A Rational Cosmology: A Refutation of the Particle-Wave Duality of Entities

Essay XL

This is Essay XL of Mr. Stolyarov's series, "A Rational Cosmology," which seeks to present objective, absolute, rationally grounded views of terms such as universe, matter, volume, space, time, motion, sound, light, forces, fields, and even the higher-order concepts of life, consciousness, and volition. See the index of all the essays in "A Rational Cosmology" here.

In the prior essay, we have shown that while particles are entities, waves are relationships among entities and thus cannot be the same as particles.

Hence, a "wave" is not some otherworldly substance coequal with a "particle" and necessarily defining all entities. Rather, at its core, a wave is merely one of the ways some entities can induce motion in others.

For example, the physical machinery within a loudspeaker might push the air molecules immediately in its vicinity in a certain direction, and those molecules might push those still further off in slightly altered directions, and so forth, until this chain series of pushes reaches its terminus upon the eardrum of the listener.

A wave is indeed an extremely intricate set of motions, as its periodic nature requires that given entities orient themselves in precisely the proper directions to "push" the entities immediately adjacent to them. Nevertheless, the entities which originate the waves are observably capable of bringing about such complexity in their relationships with the entities thus "pushed."

Along with the complexity of wave relationships is apparent their derived nature from simpler and more fundamental concepts, such as those of material entities, relationships, space, time, and motion.