quantum waves are a third type of wave (in addition to matter waves and electromagnetic waves -- sound and light and so forth). These waves are not only non-material -- i.e., needing no material medium in which to propagate -- but they are empty. “Lightwaves can travel in empty space, but they carry energy. Quantum waves also exist in empty space, but carry no energy or any other mechanical quantity.” [1] In other words, quantum waves are simply numbers, numerical relationships. “Because they are empty, evidence of their existence is circumstantial; we must think that the universe is a network of quantum waves because the observable order appears as a manifestation of their interference.” Also, “The reality of quantum waves is inferred from the expression of their interference in the observable patterns of reality.” [1] Forms, patterns, geometries, ratios... What an electron does is based on probabilities, which are in turn dimensionless numbers. “Probability waves are empty in that they carry no energy or mass. Numerical relations are their exclusive contents.” “At the foundation of reality, we find numerical relations -- non-material principles -- on which the order of the universe is based.” [1] But it doesn’t end there. Quantum “stuff” is basically “mind-stuff” -- see Wave-Particle Duality and/or Quantum Knowing. “The mind-like properties of the background of reality are also suggested by the fact that its order is determined by principles of symmetry [aka geometry], abstract mathematical patterns, to which the constituents of the material world have to conform.” [1] Schäfer also references Werner Heisenberg -- one of the most known world class physicist (for whom the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is named). “The elementary particles in Plato’s Timaeus are not substance but mathematical forms. ‘All things are numbers’ is a sentence attributed to Pythagoras. The only mathematical forms available at that time were such geometric forms as the regular solids or the triangles which form their surface. In modern quantum theory there can be no doubt that the elementary particles will finally also be mathematical forms, but of a much more complicated nature.” [1] [emphasis added] And maybe, just maybe, not that much more complicated! In sum: “In the quantum phenomena, we have discovered that reality is different from what we thought it was. Visible order and permanence are based on chaos and transitory entities. Mental principles -- numerical relations, mathematical forms, principles of symmetry -- are the foundations of order in the universe, whose mind-like properties are further established by the fact that changes in information can act, without any direct physical intervention, as causal agents in observable changes in quantum states.” [1]
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