[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your post!

Indeed, there is much to be said about wave/particle duality - photon/light, etc.

IMHO, our existence is wavelike at the root. At the Planck Epoch all fundamental forces were unified, i.e. at the inception of the big bang, the four forces existed in a single state under supersymmetry.

Somewhere around 10^-35 a split in the forces occurred, beginning the inflationary stage at about 10^-32. Temperatures dropped then rose in a process orchestrated by gravity wave.

Quarks spawned under high temperatures, as the strong nuclear force and electroweak force were dissociated As temperatures fell, the weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force began operating independently (more wave phenomenon.) By 10^-6 the quarks began organizing into hadrons, followed by electrons and other leptons. Both matter and antimatter were created in this baryogenesis, and most of them annihilated each other in bursts of gamma radiation and energetic photons (more wave phenomenon.)

I visualize particles (quarks, leptons and bosons) as placemarkers and messengers – instances in a dynamic panorama of wave phenomenon. I see their duality by not attributing ‘object’ status to them.

I see the initiating event as a harmonic, a quantum state change, possibly like a higher dimensional dynamic "shock wave."

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. – Psalms 33:6

[Phaedrus]

At some point, Alamo-Girl, I would hope that the public face of Western Science would drop its insistance upon neutrality toward the existence of a Vastly Superior Intelligence, of God, the evidence being so massive, crushing, overwhelming. It is, in my view, simply a bad institutional habit with negative cultural implications. Human curiosity is an incredible force and while some may sip their beer and be satisfied with "God did it", those who think and who lead are driven by this deep need to know. That won't change. We forget that the womb of Christianity spawned modern science.

My rant for the day ...