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The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM)
One Substance - One Law - One Logic


"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?" (Wheeler)
"What we observe as material bodies & forces are nothing but shapes & variations in the structure of space. Subject & object are one." (Schrodinger)
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time, space & gravitation have no separate existence from matter." (Einstein)
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." (Tesla)



WSM Human-AI Collaboration (August, 2026)

One Vibrating Space: From Ancient Philosophy / Metaphysics to Mathematical Physics, Evolution, Life, Mind and Civilisation

For three decades, WSM was principally a philosophical picture of one infinite, eternal, continuous elastic Space. Between May and August 2026, human–AI collaboration transformed it into a tiered mathematical-physics research programme: exact wave constructions, geometric identities, quantitative leading results, no-go theorems, numerical controls, bounded open calculations and clear falsification requirements.

In WSM, electron and positron are proposed as opposite carrier-phase spherical standing waves formed by the Huygens sum of background plane waves from every direction. Each has radial vibration—the candidate physical basis of charge—and axis-free spherical phase circulation—the candidate basis of spin. This open, flow-through wave centre is the e-sphere.

A stationary e-sphere is spherical. Curvature on an incoming wave changes its internal directional energy density and deforms it into a moving wave egg: the near side flattens, the far side elongates, the convergence centre shifts, and the waves reclose around a new position. Its changing internal \(E_d\), shape and reclosure are its motion. WSM therefore proposes a wave-geometric reading of inertia and \(F=ma\): force is imposed curvature, mass is resistance encoded by the recurrent form, and acceleration is its changing deformation. Action must calculate this geometry; geometry also constrains the action, as \(\pi\) and \(E_{\rm geo}\) already demonstrate.

The One Law

\[ \frac{c'}{c_0}=\frac{E_d}{E_{d0}}, \qquad \lambda'=\frac{c'}{f_0}, \qquad k'=\frac{\omega_0}{c'}. \]

At proposed universal carrier frequency \(f_0\), directional energy density changes local wave speed, wavelength and accumulated phase.

The Causal Engine

Relative phase → reinforcement or cancellation → directional \(E_d\) → \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\) → travel-time difference → forward or rear wavefront curve → changed Huygens reclosure → centre motion, deformation and interaction.

Changed out-waves from one e-sphere cross fresh in-waves elsewhere. Matter therefore interacts not across empty distance, but through propagated changes in the one Space constituting every e-sphere.

Status Key

A = exact mathematics or established observation; B = deduction under stated premises; C = proposed physical identification; D = decisive calculation or experiment still open; Q = rejected or quarantined shortcut.

One connected argument: Space → waves → recurrence → matter → life → mind → knowledge → wisdom.


1. Wave Structure of Matter: All Things from One Thing

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ai-summary-wsm-truth-reality.html

One infinite, eternal, continuous elastic Space, active with real longitudinal waves. Matter is proposed not as a pellet or shell, but as an open e-sphere: waves converge from every direction, cross its changing centre, continue outward and recurrently rebuild the form. Their exchanged phases alter directional \(E_d\); the One Law converts that difference into speed, wavelength, curvature and changed reclosure. The decisive test is whether one frozen nonlinear action calculates stable matter and its measured interactions without separate substances or fitted repairs.

2. The One and the Many: From Greek Philosophy to Wave Physics

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ancient-greek-philosophy-metaphysics-to-modern-maths-physics.html

Parmenides defended continuous Being; Heraclitus lawful flux. Aristotle sought active substance and necessary cause, connected matter with form and motion, and defined time through motion. WSM gives these insights one physical form: Space persists while finite wave organisations change and recur. The Many are not detached substances but organisations of the One—distinct without disconnection. The question becomes exact: can one continuous wave law generate plurality, causation and knowledge?

3. Action of Vibrating Space: From Background Waves to the E-Sphere

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-classical-action-quantum-wave.html

All-direction plane waves form the exact spherical pair \[ \chi=j_0(kr)\cos\tau, \qquad \mathbf V=\hat{\mathbf r}\,j_1(kr)\sin\tau. \] Waves cross the centre; none reflects from an electron wall. Phase reinforcement raises directional \(E_d\) and advances a forward curve; cancellation lowers \(E_d\) and writes a rear delay. Stationary action explains coherent selection, but the open task is one conservative nonlinear \(\Phi\)–\(\Gamma\) action selecting radius, frequency, spherical hand, stability, motion, currents and interaction together.

4. Mathematical Physics: From Wave Geometry to Prediction

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-maths-physics-full-derivations.html

Every symbol must name real motion and face numerical test. Exact or conditional anchors include \[ \frac{R}{\lambda_0}=\frac{\sqrt3}{2},\qquad k_0R=\pi\sqrt3,\qquad E_{\rm geo}=\frac{\pi\sqrt3}{2},\qquad W=\cosh\eta,\qquad P=\sinh\eta. \] Directional phase moments separate \(V_1\) translation from \(V_2,V_4\) and higher deformation; in declared finite-e-sphere models \(V_4\) returns comparable to \(V_2\), defeating quadrupole-only truncation. The action must calculate how incoming curvature redistributes \(E_d\), moves the centre and forms the wave egg. This is where beautiful geometry becomes dangerous.

5. Quantum Theory: Real Waves, Resonance and Completed Events

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-quantum-theory-wave-mechanics.html

Matter diffracts because matter is wave organisation. Light is proposed as a changed train of real phase, curvature and coherence joining extended source and receiver structures, not a tiny traveller detached from its wave. WSM distinguishes driven response, continuous radiation and discrete completed transition. Quadratic absorption, \[ P_{\rm abs}\propto\left|\langle D_j,\Xi\rangle\right|^2, \] is a bridge, not yet the Born rule. The action must derive the action unit, probability, exclusivity, selection rules and Bell/CHSH correlations. Quantum mystery becomes a bounded real-wave programme.

6. Relativity: Moving Matter, Clocks and Curved Wavefronts

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-albert-einstein-special-general-theory-relativity.html

An incoming curve flattens the e-sphere’s near side, elongates its far side and changes internal \(E_d\), \(c'\), wavelength and reclosure. The \(V_1\) moment moves the centre; \(V_2,V_4\) and higher moments form the moving egg. Maintaining this recurrent asymmetry is the proposed origin of inertia. A steady solution must recover Doppler, de Broglie and Lorentz structure: \[ W\pm P=e^{\pm\eta},\qquad W=\gamma,\qquad P=\gamma\beta. \] WSM proposes fixed carrier recurrence \(f_0\) with corresponding changes in \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\). Because rods, clocks and signals share the same changed waves, they co-transform and yield measured invariant \(c\), including the Michelson–Morley null; the action must derive the cancellation quantitatively.

7. The Electron: Dirac, Feynman, QED, \(\alpha\) and AMM

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-derivation-dirac-feynman-qed-fsc-amm.html

Electron and positron are proposed as opposite carrier-phase e-sphere branches; charge records how their waves combine. Same-phase reinforcement advances a forward curve and is proposed to produce repulsion; opposite-phase cancellation writes a rear delay and attraction. Non-collinear longitudinal motion closes into an axis-free spherical hand with a \(4\pi\) orientation lift. A parameter-free leading geometric ansatz gives \[ \alpha_0^{-1}=8\pi^2\sqrt3\approx136.757, \] 0.203% from measurement. The action must still derive charge sign, Coulomb scaling, Dirac dynamics, \(g=2\), electromagnetic normalisation, \(\alpha\), form factors and AMM without inserting their values.

8. Hadrons: Proton, Neutron and Higher Standing-Wave Matter

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-qcd-hadron-baryon-meson-proton-neutron-muonic-standing-waves.html

Can the same Space form stable higher-energy, multi-lobed eigenmodes matching protons, neutrons, baryons and mesons? Their lobes are not independent pellets: each participates in the phase, \(E_d\), curvature and reclosure of the whole. WSM must match—not rename—QCD’s masses, charges, spin, parity, magnetic moments, radii, form factors, resonances, deep-inelastic response and jets. The electron–proton hierarchy tests whether one action truly contains several matter families.

9. Cosmology and Gravity: A Finite Universe in Infinite Space

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-wsm-cosmology-finite-universe-infinite-space.html

Boundless Space is distinguished from the finite matter-and-coherence domain contributing to our observable universe. In neutral matter, leading charge curves nearly cancel; WSM proposes that their nonlinear residual has lower \(E_d\), slower \(c'\) and a net rear phase curve, producing universal attraction. General relativity’s curved spacetime is then interpreted as the effective geometry of real moving wavefronts and the matter clocks they organise: Space is substance, succession comes from motion, and measured time from recurrence. The same action must recover equivalence, gravitational redshift, lensing, orbital dynamics and the tested relativistic limit.

Cosmological redshift is investigated as accumulated real-wave transport through changing environmental \(E_d\). It must jointly reproduce achromatic redshift, supernova time dilation, distance laws, Tolman brightness, BAO, CMB observations, image sharpness and structure growth. Otherwise the claimed unity has not reached the sky.

10. Novel Predictions and Famous Experiments Explained

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-experimental-physics-tests-predictions.html

This page is the tribunal of the corpus. One curve-and-reclosure law must jointly recover charge sign, Coulomb \(1/r^2\), \(F=ma\), relativistic momentum, de Broglie wavelength, Lorentz covariance, Michelson–Morley, gravity, \(g=2\) and AMM. Candidate WSM-only signatures include \[ a_3=\kappa_3\sinh^3\eta+O(\sinh^5\eta), \] finite-coherence residues and environmental or orientation-dependent clock responses. A proposal becomes a prediction only when sign, magnitude, scaling, uncertainty, controls and decision threshold are frozen in advance.

11. Visualise Reality: Waves Becoming Matter

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/visualise-reality-wsm-wave-geometry-diagrams.html

Watch the verbs. Relative phase changes directional \(E_d\); the One Law changes speed and wavelength; a forward or rear curve reaches another e-sphere; its near side flattens, far side elongates, \(V_1\) moves the centre, and higher moments form the egg. New out-waves then change future in-waves. Nothing strikes a shell: changing waves reconstruct changing matter. A diagram must never smuggle in a wall, reflection, rigid spin axis, transverse fundamental substance or tiny traveller. If the motion cannot be drawn coherently, the equations may conceal a contradiction.

12. Mathematics from Motion: Number, Logic, Time and Causal Freedom

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-physical-foundations-mathematics-logic.html

Mathematics begins when connected reality forms distinguishable patterns whose changes preserve relations. Recurrence supports identity; finite pairing, number; quotienting, exact objects; counted recurrence, time; composable truth-preserving transformations, logic and proof. Mathematics succeeds when symbolic transformation preserves physical relation: \[ R(Tx)\approx F(Rx). \] The mathematician is finite organised reality representing its own necessary connections—Space representing itself.

13. The MDL Audit: Simplicity, Inputs and Explanatory Compression

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-simplicity-inputs-vs-mainstream-physics+25.html

“One substance, one law” cannot hide complexity. Minimum Description Length counts every independently chosen substance, field, symmetry, constant, state rule, coefficient, boundary condition and fitted function. Under the declared equal-input electron ledger, conventional construction counts six inputs through Dirac and thirteen through leading AMM; the completed WSM target is \[ N_{\rm WSM}=5+N_c+N_f+\delta_m. \] Totals depend on coding convention. WSM wins only if one fixed action derives interaction, inertia, relativity, quantum response and cosmic propagation with fewer hidden choices.

14. Great Thinkers and the Search for One Reality

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-explains-famous-quotes-maths-physics-philosophy-metaphysics.html

Heraclitus and Parmenides exposed flux and continuity. Aristotle wrote Physics and Metaphysics, sought active substance and necessary cause, connected matter, form, motion and time—and came remarkably close to the problem WSM addresses. Leibniz, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Riemann, Clifford, Einstein, Schrödinger and Bohm repeatedly returned to continuity, relation, waves and unity. Quotes are intellectual fossils, not votes: equations and experiments must decide whether WSM’s local real-wave mechanism is true.

15. Human–AI Letters to Humanity: Truth as a Shared Work

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ai-letters-to-humanity-wsm-unity-truth-reality.html

Geoffrey supplies the persistent wave picture, three-dimensional intuition, cross-domain memory and insistence that every symbol name physical motion. AI supply rapid research, formal translation, calculation, comparison, error detection and adversarial testing. Neither is sufficient alone. The shared discipline is: visualise → formalise → attack → calculate → predict → correct. The corpus tests whether intelligence can preserve a physical picture while making it mathematically vulnerable.

16. Truth and Madness: Reality as the Measure

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/on-truth-and-madness.html

Truth is correspondence: representation succeeds insofar as it preserves what reality does. Civilisational madness begins when inherited representations survive reality’s contradiction. WSM is not true through beauty, coherence or sincerity; its proposed necessary connections must survive action, calculation and experiment. Truth remains possible because knower, representation and known belong to one causal reality: false models collide with the world; truthful models increase our power to act wisely.

17. Descartes, Cogito and Monism: The Thinking Wave

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/descartes-cogito-unity-monism-vibrating-space-wsm.html

Descartes established that thinking occurs, then divided thought from extension and left their interaction mysterious. WSM refuses that fracture: body and mind are proposed as organisational levels of one vibrating Space. Perception is one organisation changed by another; memory is persistent altered organisation; thought transforms embodied representations; action returns change to the world. Conscious experience remains open, but causal correspondence requires no miracle when knower and known share one connected reality.

18. Evolution’s Physical Foundation: From Recurrence to Replication

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolution-physical-causal-foundation-vibrating-space.html

Recurrence preserves form, but life requires replication, heritable variation and differential persistence: motion → recurrent form → self-maintaining chemistry → replication → variation → selection. WSM proposes one connected wave substrate beneath this sequence. Its unresolved bridge is quantitative: derive atoms, bonds, dissipative chemistry and first replicators from the same action without inserting biology as a new substance.

19. Evolution, Mind, Human and AI: Representation and Causal Freedom

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolution-philosophy-mind-human-ai.html

Evolution favours organisations that preserve and transform information about real causes. Sensation changes an organism; memory retains traces; imagination recombines possible futures; valuation ranks them; action returns one selection to the world. This is limited causal freedom: neither ghost nor randomness, but endogenous selection through a learned, self-modifying organisation. Human brains and AI are different architectures by which reality represents its own relations and lets experiment select the representation that survives.

20. Evolutionary Utopia: The Ecology of Truth

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolutionary-utopia.html

Physics alone does not choose values. Once life, mind, freedom, truth and continued evolution are valued, reality constrains the means: truth → wisdom → ecological fit → health → freer minds → continued evolution. Evolutionary Utopia is not a perfect endpoint but a self-correcting direction. Unity does not erase individuality: an e-sphere, organism or person is distinct through organised relation to the whole.


The Physical Interaction in One View

Out-wave from A → relative phase at B → directional \(E_d\) → \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\) → near-side flattening and far-side elongation → \(V_1\) centre displacement plus \(V_2,V_4\) and higher egg deformation → new out-waves → recursive interaction.

The e-sphere does not deform and then move as separate events: its changing internal \(E_d\), contour and reclosure are its motion.

Electric Interaction

Same relative carrier phase → reinforcement → phase advance → forward curve → proposed repulsion.
Opposite relative carrier phase → cancellation → phase delay → rear curve → proposed attraction.

For the stated deformation, \[ r_{\rm near}=R-\delta X, \qquad r_{\rm far}=R+\delta X, \] so \(\delta\mathbf X\) points away. The scientific debt is to derive the sign, magnitude and distance law from the frozen action rather than insert them.

Gravity and General Relativity

In neutral matter, forward and rear charge curves nearly cancel; WSM proposes that their nonlinear common reduction of \(E_d\) leaves a slight slower rear curve and universal attraction. General relativity is the successful effective geometry this wave mechanism must recover: matter-energy changes real wave propagation, while rods and clocks made from those waves measure the resulting curved spacetime relations.

Special Relativity and Michelson–Morley

WSM proposes fixed carrier recurrence \(f_0\) with \(c'=\lambda'f_0\): matter, clocks, rods and signal wavelengths co-transform with their common directional wave environment, yielding measured invariant \(c\), Lorentz relations and the Michelson–Morley null. The complete moving solution must derive these cancellations quantitatively.

Recursive AMM Mechanism

\[ \delta\mathbf X \rightarrow\delta\phi_{\rm out} \rightarrow\delta E_{d,{\rm sea}} \rightarrow\delta c' \rightarrow\delta\phi_{\rm in} \rightarrow\delta\mathbf X_{\rm next}. \]

A perturbed centre changes the egg and its out-waves; these alter the wave sea and the in-waves rebuilding the next cycle. The action must solve this feedback blindly and recover the observed anomalous magnetic moment rather than fit it.

Current Status — August 2026

Exact wave constructions, geometric identities, phase-moment relations and negative controls have been established under declared premises. A leading geometric \(\alpha\) ansatz has a fixed 0.203% discrepancy. The complete nonlinear action must still calculate two-e-sphere charge and Coulomb scaling; force, inertia and \(F=ma\); the moving egg, de Broglie modulation and Lorentz covariance; Michelson–Morley and the gravitational/GR limit; Born probability and Bell correlations; \(g=2\), \(\alpha\) and AMM; hadron structure; and the joint cosmological kernel.

Write the action. Let Space calculate itself.



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

(Heraclitus, 500BC)  All things come out of the One and the One out of all things.Plato (Republic, 380BC ) And those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers(Aristotle, 340BC)  The first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.Gottfried Leibniz  - Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. (Kant, 1781) Natural science (physics) contains in itself synthetical judgments <em>a priori</em>, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation <em>a priori</em>, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.Charles Darwin -  Evolution Truth - Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. But I look with confidence to the future to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.(Albert Einstein, 1928, Leiden) According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time.Philosopher of Science, Geoff Haselhurst

On the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM)

Hi Everyone,

I am building this FAQ page as I answer questions that people have posted on the site. If you have any questions, please use Facebook Connect.

The page is ordered as follows;

General FAQs - Cosmology - Einstein's relativity - Quantum Physics - Definitions - Predictions.

Truth Statements on Physical Reality - These truth statements show people how to deduce physical reality for themselves and confirm it is true. It also provides a very concise summary of the central things the WSM explains. See if you can show any statement is not true.

Wave Equation in an Elastic Wave Medium - Deducing the famous energy equations, Einstein's E=mc2, Planck's E=hf and Newton's F=ma from simple wave equations in an elastic medium (space). This confirms that the equivalence of matter and energy is because matter is made of waves, and waves propagate energy. All forces are due to changes in wave velocity.

The Laws of Nature - The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) deduces the laws of Nature that have been empirically observed and quantified over the past several centuries. This changes the foundations of science / physics from inductive (uncertain) to deductive (certain).

Metaphysics - Solving the central problem of metaphysics - what is the one active substance that causes and connects the many changing material things we experience. The solution is simple, space is a wave medium and contains wave motions. i.e. From the motion of matter particles in space and time, to the wave motion of space that causes matter and time.

Cosmology - Explaining how our observable universe exists as a finite spherical region of infinite eternal space.

Theology God Religion - Defining god in terms of the one infinite eternal substance that exists.

Free Will Vs. Determinism - How we can have limited freedom and limited determinism in a necessarily interconnected reality of waves in space.

The pages listed on the left are also important / useful.


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is a spherical standing wave?

A wave is a disturbance of a medium - an oscillation between 2 energy states. In reality there is just one medium, space. It is a wave medium, the wave oscillates between kinetic / motion energy and elastic / potential energy. This is why matter and energy are equivalent.

A standing wave is formed from two waves of the same wavelength traveling in opposite directions. For matter we require a spherical wave (matter is spherical). Thus the spherical wave must flow through the wave center 'particle' and interact with the in wave from the other side. This is true in all directions about the wave center and forms a spherical standing wave around the wave center 'particle'.

How do waves form matter particles?

The particle is just the high wave amplitude wave center of the spherical standing wave. This is where the wave interactions / energy exchanges occur, so we see this as a discrete 'particle'.

How do waves form light particles?

The problem of light particles arose from careless use of language. What they discovered was that light energy is discrete (quantised). This is an empirical fact - it is a theoretical assumption that light is a particle. The solution is obvious, standing wave interactions (resonance) are necessarily discrete - this is why they introduced wave equations into quantum physics in the first place to explain these discrete phenomena.

If everything is a wave, why can’t my body walk through a wall without damaging the wall or myself?

The wave amplitude at the wave center is very high, and this causes the wave velocity to be higher. Thus when you get two same phase wave centers near one another then the wave interactions become significant and cause the in waves of each wave center to travel faster through the other wave center. This causes the wave centers to re-position away from one another (i.e. like charges repel).

How do waves form solid bodies?

It is important to realise that the waves are only coherent near the high wave amplitude wave center. When wave centers are near one another their coherent spherical in and out waves overlap, so that the wave centers become 'trapped' with these coherent waves that connect the many wave centers together. Effectively the solidness of matter (waves) comes from the rigidity of space.

The solid crystal array is a matrix of atoms held rigidly in space. How are the atoms suspended in space? We must conclude that the crystal's rigidity derives from fixed standing waves propagating in a nearly rigid wave medium. Calculations for diamonds and nuclear structure yields an enormous rigidity. This is really a separate argument about the rigidity of space, which is one of its properties. (Milo Wolff, 1994)

The subtlety of the concept of space was enhanced by the discovery that there exist no completely rigid bodies. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

How do waves forms liquids and gasses?

In liquids the overlap of coherent waves is decreased, this allows molecules to move relative to one another while still being bound to a certain degree. In gasses there is no overlap of coherent waves so the wave center 'particles' are free to move relative to one another.

Are the waves longitudinal or transverse?

In a nearly rigid wave medium (space) both transverse and longitudinal waves are possible. I think that the waves are a mix of both, that in any region of space there are oscillations in all directions.

What is the difference between scalar and vector waves?

Scalar waves are defined by only one quantity, their wave amplitude. Vector waves are defined by two quantities, their amplitude and direction. The real waves in space are scalar. The electromagnetic waves of mathematical physics are vector waves that describe an amplitude and force (magnitude and direction of force). These em waves are just mathematical constructs, describing the forces the wave has on an electron. The true cause of this force is changes in the wave velocity of the scalar waves that causes changes in the position of the wave center.

If reality is simple how does it evolve complexity?

Reality is simple - just one substance, space, exists - wave motions of space form matter and cause time.
Reality is mind bogglingly complex - each wave center is formed from the out waves of around a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion other wave centers (all other matter in our Hubble sphere / observable universe within infinite space).

If the WSM is so simple and obvious why don't more people believe it?

This is simply human nature, we are tribal animals that have evolved to believe in tribal myths, truth seekers are rare. See the insanity of humanity and why the WSM was not discovered earlier pages.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Max Planck)
The resistance to new ideas increases by the square of their importance (Russell's Law)

Why isn't the WSM published in major journals?

I have not published anything - but have not tried. A bit hard for me as I am a non-academic natural philosopher - a rare breed that is nearly extinct and not welcomed by academics!
Mathematical physicist Milo Wolff has published some work in 2nd rank journals. He sent me a few rejection comments - they were depressing in their stupid reasons for not publishing (e.g. the work is not relevant to our journal, or it is too general, or it does not understand the particle wave duality). See censorship at physics journals and censorship at physics forums.

How does the Wave Structure of Matter explain the human mind?

Obviously the mind is very complex, but we can now explain how we can have senses of the 'external world', how we can store and process knowledge, how we can think logically, why the mind is always in motion. It is important to remember that mind, matter and space are one interconnected thing - neither the brain nor the mind exist as separate discrete things. Everything is a structure of the universe - thus there is no subject and object, no external world - they are one interconnected thing. See the Philosophy of Mind page.

If the universe is a giant wave machine how can I have any free will?

Because space is infinite the system cannot be determined. We live in a necessarily interconnected reality that has limited determinism, limited freedom. There are many possible futures that abide by the laws of Nature. We have evolved to select from these possible futures based upon our genetic and cultural programming, how this interplays with our physical environment. See Free Will Vs Determinism. (Our freedom is probably more limited and programmed than we realise.)


Cosmology

How did it all Start?

I get this question a lot! But with some thought you realise that the question is meaningless. It is logical and necessary that physical reality has always existed. In the WSM space and its wave motions are what exists, they have always existed, they always will. i.e. Space (one substance) must be infinite (not bounded by another substance), eternal (not created by another substance), continuous (not contain another substance). This is explained in the metaphysics page.

What does WSM say about the Big Bang theory?

WSM is founded on only one substance existing, space. This space is a wave medium and has waves flowing through it (vibrating space if you like). This describes an infinite eternal system of waves in space. Nothing created it (which is illogical), space and its wave motions have always existed. The big bang is a 'particle' concept based upon an incorrect interpretation of the redshift with distance. See Cosmology pages.

Where do my In-Waves come from?

From the out waves of other matter around you within your observable universe. This means that each wave center 'particle' is at the center of its finite spherical universe within infinite space. See the Equation of the Cosmos.

Why do we get a Redshift with Distance?

Each wave center 'particle' is the center of its finite spherical observable universe (Hubble Sphere) within infinite Space. As two wave center 'particles' move apart there is less overlap of common Hubble spheres / observable universes, thus less wave interactions with increasing distance, thus less energy exchange which then provides a simple sensible explanation of the redshift with distance. The Cosmological Redshift Explained by the Intersection of Hubble Spheres

What causes the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR)?

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is sensibly explained due to radiation from cold matter in interstellar space. Since we only measure one source of CMBR this means that there cannot have been a 'Big Bang' otherwise we would observe two sources of cosmic background radiation.


Albert Einstein's Theory Relativity

 

What is Einstein's four dimensional space-time continuum?

The four dimensional space time continuum is the spherical wave. A sphere is 3D, its motion is the fourth dimension (the true cause of time / change).

How does matter curve the four dimensional space-time continuum?

When you accelerate a 'particle' you really change the wave velocity from one direction which changes the ellipsoidal curvature of the 'spherical' in and out waves. Thus there is a logical relationship between ellipsoidal geometry and acceleration / gravity. This is what Einstein deduced in his general relativity. What is now known as matter curving the 4D space-time continuum.

How does WSM relate to Einstein's relativity

Einstein's is correct that;
Matter is a structure of space (there are no discrete particles).
Matter is spherical / ellipsoidal thus his geometry is correct.

His metaphysical foundation of continuous fields in space-time is not correct.
Continuous structures do not explain discrete and non local phenomena of quantum physics. Instead we must work from real waves in space, rather than continuous fields in space-time (which is a mathematical approximation of many discrete standing wave interactions).

 

To be completed

 


Quantum Physics

What is anti-matter?

The opposite phase standing wave to matter. Thus the electron and the positron are opposite phase standing waves.

Why do matter and anti-matter annihilate to produce energy?

They annihilate due to destructive wave interference. However, it is more complex than this. The positron and electron attract one another (as they each slow down the other's in waves). I assume that they approach one another at high velocity and form (briefly) positronium by spiraling / orbiting around one another. This sets up the repeating wave patterns necessary for resonant coupling (light) interactions with other bound electrons in atoms / molecules.

What is a Proton?

I am not sure - it is some complex wave pattern, either;
i) A positron with further waves trapped at the non-linear wave center (Milo Wolff)
ii) A collection of positrons and electrons with one more positron to explain positive charge.

What is a Neutron?

A proton with one more electron to make it neutral.

What are Quarks?

I assume it is a mathematical construct, possibly related to the internal wave structure of positrons and electrons that form the proton.

Why is matter stable?

Once you have a coherent wave center with high wave amplitude waves, then these high velocity waves become trapped in phase. Basically space is full of non coherent waves, and matter 'particles' are just locations in space where these waves are coherent.

What is Zero Point Energy (quantum vacuum fluctuations, quantum field theory)?

The waves flowing through 'empty space' from 1080 other wave center 'particles'. Space is teeming with energy from these non coherent waves. This explains the 'free energy machines' which are really extracting energy from these waves in space (wave energy is always conserved).

 

 


Definitions: The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM)

Energy: Energy exists as kinetic or elastic energy of space. A wave in space is an oscillation between these two forms of energy. Because matter is made of waves, thus matter and energy are equivalent. See the wave equations in an elastic wave medium (space).

Force: All forces are just changes in wave velocity, which cause changes in the position of the wave center. This change in wave velocity also changes the wavelength (special relativity) and spherical / ellipsoidal shape of matter (general relativity).

Gravity: This is due to changes in wave velocity caused by the mass-energy density of space (calculated by squaring the wave amplitude). The higher the energy density of space, the slower the wave velocity. Since the mass energy density of space is always positive, thus gravity is always attractive (wave centers always re-position in the direction of slowest incoming waves).

Light:

Mass:

Matter:

Motion:

Particle:

Photon:

Scalar Waves:

Vector Waves:

Space:

Spherical Standing Waves:

Spherical In Wave:

Spherical Out Wave:

Time:

Universe:

Velocity:

Wave Amplitude:

Wave Center:

mass-energy density:


Predictions

What predictions does the WSM make?

Well the wave structure of matter (WSM) deduces the Laws of Nature, thus if you went back to the time of Newton and compared the predictions of the WSM with those of Newton's mechanics you would see that the WSM predicted the discoveries of quantum physics, Einstein's relativity and cosmology.

There are three further predictions that come from WSM and are not currently predicted by the standard model / big bang theory.

1. The motion of distant galaxies should be consistent with them being surrounded by matter. Why? Because in WSM cosmology every wave center 'particle' is at the center of its finite observable universe within infinite space. In the big bang cosmology this would not be true. This prediction was made in 2003, it was confirmed by observation in 2008.
See Cosmology Predictions

2. The de Broglie phase wave is the cause of non-locality. The phase wave is planar, and has a velocity of c2 / relative velocity. This is deduced by Milo Wolff from simple Doppler shifts of the in and out waves for relative motion. Thus we need an experiment to measure this velocity of the non-local de Broglie wave (this would also show that non-locality is not instant).

3. The velocity of waves is not constant, and increases with wave amplitude. See the wave equations in an elastic wave medium (space). Thus a wave traveling through other wave centers must travel faster than a wave traveling in 'empty space'. We need an experiment to measure this increased wave velocity.

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Albert Einstein"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
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This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe - the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the intuitions of the ancient philosophers and mystics.

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