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Saturday 3 April 2010

Wave Particle Duality And My Trinity.

The wave particle duality principle of quantum physics holds that matter and light exhibit the behaviours of both waves and particles, depending upon the circumstances of the experiment. It is a complex topic, but among the most intriguing in physics.

In the 1600s, Christian Huygens and Isaac Newton proposed competing theories for light's behaviour. Huygens proposed a wave theory of light while Newton's was a particle theory of light. Huygens' theory had some issues in matching observation. Newton's prestige helped lend support to his theory, so for over a century his theory was dominant.

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his paper to explain the photoelectric effect, which proposed that light travelled as discrete bundles of energy. The energy contained within a photo was related to the frequency of the light. This theory came to be known as the photon theory of light ( although the word photon wasn't coined until years later ).


With photons the ether was no longer essential as a means of propagation, although it still left the odd paradox of why wave behaviour was observed. Even more peculiar were the quantum variations of the double slit experiment and the Compton effect which seemed to confirm the particle interpretation.


As experiments were performed and evidence accumulated, the implications quickly became clear and alarming: Light functions as both a particle and a wave, depending on how the experiment is conducted and when observations are made. ( emphasis: depending on how the experiment is conducted )


In the realm of the physical Sciences, such an observation does not seem to conflict with logic. In fact, it is not an anomaly for an entity to behave in such irrational way. In one experiment the entity behaves as a particle and in an other a wave. Such a phenomena has not been questioned nor deemed an absurdity. If light can behave as two different things and still be light, then why does it perplex the minds of men to question God behaving as a father and a Son whiles maintaining his integral substance at the same time. Depending on the time and condition he acts as the Father and in another realm or situation as the Son or the Holy Ghost. ( Using in principle, the same underlining assumptions implicit in the Light experiment ).


The intriguing part of this whole Light Duality issue is the contradiction between the properties of Wave and a Particle. Waves, be as it may, has nothing in likeness to Particle. Yet Light displays both contradictions. I find it amusing that Light, as ordinary as it is, could exhibit in itself such irreconcilable contradiction, then why will we choose to deny God the same quality and even go further to label it an absurdity. In my view, such blatant display of intolerance towards transcendent interpretations, whiles views using the same underlining assumptions in Science is tolerated only amounts to nothing but self-serving double standards.


If one will not question the Wave-Particle Duality of Light, then I find it hypocritical on the part of anyone to ridicule the Father-Son-Holy Ghost Trinity of God. Light the Wave, Light the Particle. Just as God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting premise, a little above my head. But I love the conclusion and agree :).

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