[Guille]

Originally Posted by dleviwing Welcome to ToeQuest Benedict. Rather than variations, I tend to think vibrations; The wave nature of matter and existence.

I have a profound philosophical problem with two of the most important concepts in physics: field and wave. It is a problem to explain the problem itself. Putting it into the term vibration, my problem is: can there be vibration amongst vibration? And vibration amongst the vibration in vibration? And vibration in that? And in that?... Does this stop? If it doesn't, should we assume that vibration is a concept that leads to a paradox of infinity (which is, in fact, the worst)? More importantly, shouldn't we neglect the ideas of field and wave if they are going to be harmful in such way that there is either zero or infinity? Lastly, to be clearer: can things refer to themselves? If they can, we should have in all our thinking the fact that things can refer to themselves. And of course, our whole logic is destroyed. What do you think? Are fields and waves merely inventions made by science to simplify the explanation of abstract concepts such as force and energy, or do they in fact reveal us an incredible secret about the universe that makes it chaotically more complex than it is according to classical physics?