And though I ....understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;...and have not Love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
"Matter is what makes up the universe, but what makes up matter? ... We propose that matter is not made of particles or waves, as was long thought, but – more fundamentally – that matter is made of fragments of energy.
Isaac Newton introduced the idea that all matter exists at points called particles. One hundred fifty years after that, James Clerk Maxwell introduced the electromagnetic wave – the underlying and often invisible form of magnetism, electricity and light. The particle served as the building block for mechanics and the wave for electromagnetism – and the public settled on the particle and the wave as the two building blocks of matter.
Together, the particles and waves became the building blocks of all kinds of matter.
Einstein was able to better explain certain physical phenomena and also resolve a longstanding paradox relating to inertia and gravity. But instead of improving on particles or waves, he eliminated them as he proposed the warping of space and time.
....demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe.
Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we considered that there could be a building block that is more fundamental than the particle and the wave. Scientists understand that particles and waves are existential opposites:
---A particle is a source of matter that exists at a single point,
---and waves exist everywhere except at the points that create them. .....tit made logical sense for there to be an underlying connection between them.
Our theory begins with a new fundamental idea – that energy always“flows” through regions of space and time. Much to our surprise, we discovered that there were only a limited number of ways to describe a concentration of energy that flows. Of those, we found just one that works in accordance with our mathematical definition of flow. We named it a fragment of energy. For the math and physics aficionados, it is defined as A = -⍺/r where ⍺ is intensity and r is the distance function.
Where particles and waves break down, the fragment of energy building block held strong. The fragment could be a single potentially universal building block from which to model reality mathematically – and update the way people think about the building blocks of the universe."
LarrySilverberg/SciTech
