I prefer to think of all of this as waves.
When we see 'a wave' at the beach, it appears to be an object moving on the surface of the water but it isn't, it's a transmission of energy through a medium. That changes of course when the wave crashes as it needs to dissipate it's energy and the water is easier to move than the beach. It seems to me that matter, at it's most basic level, is this, where 'the waves' are the particles. Moving from place to place may be as simple as a wave of energy passing through the medium and that it is a manifestation of the actual medium and not something separate. IOW, We are transmissions of energy at the sub quantum level and nothing more.. it only seems like we aren't. My point being that, even though it appears that we have the same atoms moving from place to place they are really not, as they are manifestations of the medium, like the waves at the beach, and that we are, at our most fundamental, just these waves of energy.
I have no idea why something like this could eventuate though. Just where does the 'energy' come from to ripple the pond and why is there structure?
Last edited by bossa; 03-01-2012 at 06:00 PM.