hy do waves exist?

What would there be if there there were no waves in Nature and how would Nature create without them? Through dozens of examples, this essay in wholistic reasoning observes a relationship between the cyclic nature of electromagnetic waves – and those of other particles – and waves seen in the macroworld of most sorts. The smallest segment of a wave considered in this essay is the "S" wave. Its nature is to move in the direction of a force. It is proposed that the head of the S establishes direction while the peaks and troughs of the S generate thrust. ¹ S movements can be lateral or vertical. S movement is also here called a cyclic propellant or simply propellant. Short extensions have one S and longer extensions have multiple. Waves of the micro world would appear to be nature's software; the macro forms seen under the microscope and everyday around us would seem to be nature's hardware: i.e. microsoft and macrohard.

It is here proposed that the reason Nature established her form based on waves is because Nature's desire is to Create and this requires movement from point A to point B to point C (ad infinitum) in order to realize that purpose (see next paragraph). A straight line, as opposed to wave, offers fewer options and would be inferior.² A straight line would never change direction and could absolutely never form composite particles or atoms as it would be incapable of the circular or confined activity typifying subatomic particle behavior. Furthermore, the shorter the wave length (high energy particles have a billion billion cycles per second) the greater the energy and surface area, and the more opportunities exist to react. Radio waves can have upwards of up to six miles between crests – meaning they propagate almost as straight lines – have less reactive surface, and, in fact, can't react to form particles as their energy is too low. The rapidly undulating wave, as opposed to straight line or radio wave, is the best choice for a creative agenda.

Where movement is concerned, movement is necessary for form A (particle waves or anything) to reach and interact with form B in order to create form C (going forward) or form A' (going backwards). All material things are made of atoms and molecules and it is these that can move forward or backwards: ³ and particles themselves can be "broken down" if they are composites like nucleons, or transformed if they are elementary. This reversible movement is generally always possible (except for entropy) as in hydrogen and oxygen making water and water being reducible to hydrogen and oxygen: here we are considering the wave (as opposed to particle) nature of these atoms.⁴

Atomic: The head of an S sets direction and this fact can account for the attractive movement between charged particles towards each other or repulsive movement away from each other and establish their binding natures and activities as well. From this nature, the physical world is structured from nucleons to atoms, molecules, crystals, and living forms. Almost every significant movement in nature is propellant and the question to solve is what is the transformational mechanism by which this ubiquitous quantum feature finds its way into the biological realm.

Vertical and lateral propellants: Fish with horizonal tails are vertical propellants. Those with vertical tails are lateral propellants. Also, vertical propellants where the whole body is used are found in the movement of flagellae, worms, eels, otters, seals, sea lions and killer whales. Inclusive of its tail, squirrels move like vertical propellants and both parakeets, roosters, and peacocks, with eyes on either side of their heads, determine perspective by vertical movements of their heads: while not propellants, their heads act as auxiliary propellants in enabling the animal to maneuver and, in fact, to determine movement from other sources.

While many fish use their whole body as a whip or propellant, fish in addition use their lateral fins. In this case, a fish's fins and insect's or bird's wings are vertical propellants – but point backwards to achieve thrust. Reptiles like snakes, lizards and crocodiles, but also sharks, and perpendicularly flat fish, as angel fish, are lateral propellants as are centipedes. Footage of the shock waves of an earthquake have shown highways buckling in movement like ocean waves showing the force as a vertical propellant. Waving fields of wheat, trees or any stationary but resilient object blowing in the wind, sand dunes, snow drifts, hills, mountains, glaciers, ocean waves, and tidal waves form in the direction of the force creating them and are also vertical propellants.

Tractile propellants: Quadrupeds are vertical propellants as their spinal chord moves in the S shape especially noticeable when running. However, bears, beavers, and many other four-legged creatures are also lateral propellants in that their spinal chords buckle in the center causing their rears to swing from left to right and this aids in giving power to their forward movement. It is more pronounced in some people than others, but the human's shoulders are laterally propellant as the body pivots from the waist to aid in forward movement.

Bipeds are also vertical propellants as height reaches a peak in-between steps (legs parallel): and reaches a lowest point, or trough, at the end of a step (greatest distance between steps). Thus, including fish, insects, reptiles, and mammals, individual creatures embody both lateral and vertical propulsion. The point is esoteric (but so is Nature): "What does animal movement have to do with getting from point A to point B and what does that have to do with Nature fulfilling Her creative purpose through Her creations?" Simply that to fulfil life's needs and purposes requires interaction and interacting bodies must congregate-disperse-congregate, etc.

The head of an S wave determines its direction. What is the relationship between a particle and a person in this sense? Direction in higher animals is also determined in the brain: being in the head. And, thought is oscillatory. Chosen direction in higher animals is, in a sense, a trajectory of intersecting mental waves: which are in their ionic roots, waves. Regarding plants, while they remain stationary, they rely upon the mechanisms of nature to carry their images and scents that cause animal movements of attraction or repulsion towards or away from them. Attractive and repulsive movements that are in nature homologous with the same found between particles and being a difference of degree but not kind: in each case, the mode of transmission and reception is waves. ⁵

Spherical and organic propellants: Explosions are spherical propellants: if nothing more than their individual particles being so – but, as a whole, they are, nonetheless. In this category are fire works, nuclear mushroom clouds, exploding super novas. The same propellant behavior is seen where light is emitted from globular sources as they produce alternating patterns of peaks and troughs as seen in the corona of the sun during an eclipse and (two-dimensional) electron diffraction patterns. The oscilloscope depicts the spherically propellant nature of the heart beat as it becomes full of and empties its blood.

Lie-detectors, measuring galvanic skin reflexes, show the vertically propellant nature of skin movement. So-called goose bumps themselves are propellants as is breathing, eating/talking, the blinking of the eye, walking, and we can add love-making, and sensuous dance. There are also numerous biological cycles from menstruation to waking and sleeping that are not propellants but are perhaps related nonetheless as an outgoing cycle forces the onset of an incoming cycle where the, say, yin/yang phases are halves of a common whole – peaks and troughs as it were.

This essay has stated that the S propellant is the essential form that Nature exists in and was established in order to enable Nature to fulfil Her purpose of creating. That to create requires movement from point A to point B, ad infinitum, which is usually reversible – except in the case of entropy. That the force for thrust is generated through the peak and trough of an S propellant. That there is a transformational mechanism by which this feature finds its way from the quantum, to the biological realm. What that mechanism is remains yet to be determined. Finally, S propellants seem to be a general concept used by Nature to achieve Her purpose which seems applicable in every dimension of existence. The forgoing has stated why waves exist in Nature and why they occur as cyclical forms. Nature presents herself in the form of microsoft and macrohard.

¹ The slope of the peak and trough is zero at the tangent to it, but points equi-distant on opposite sides of the peak or trough are 180⁰ different from one another. Thus, the zero point, or point of tangency to the slope and peak, would seem to be the fulcrum forcing maximum change in direction and thus the point forcing thrust forward. This could be equated to the force driving closed scissors open where the scissors-edges are either side of the wave and scissors pivot-point the zero slope of the wave peak or trough. Also, an undulating wave is like a spring.

² Interactive "straight line" waves might only be able to interact if meeting head-on. There are many more opportunities to interact with a curve which has much more height, thus reactive surface, than a line. Also, because of footnote #1, a straight line would not have as much thrust and possibly have a shorter life span than one which undulates forward and does so like a spring.

³By stating the forgoing, it discounts the idea that history can exactly reverse itself. Adults don't become the infants they were. The film doesn't run in reverse. Only material building blocks of molecules, atoms, and particles are reversible – with the exception of entropy.

⁴ Reversibility on the most minute dimensions maximizes creative options and we can understand the fatality of the opposite as decay (as in organic recyclying) would be impossible without Nature's feature of reversibility: and reversibility being the key for rebirth and renewal.

⁵ This would seem to be true if we consider molecules as made of subatomic particles which are essentially waves: and molecules are themselves often referred to as oscillatory bodies as contrasted to solid matter.