(03-05-2026, 05:52 PM)nerb Wrote:(03-05-2026, 04:50 PM)quintessentone Wrote: [...]
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The particles are the parents and the waves are the children, [...]
That specific part somewhat reminds me of classes and objects in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), whereas classes defines the properties, and objects are iterations of classes. Parents and children in OOP, for those that don't know, are when a class inherits the attributes (variables) and/or methods (functions) of a 'larger' (or a more generalized) class.
For example, you could create a class named "Animal" where you specify some basic attributes such number of legs, has claws (true/false boolean data), etc. Then you create a child class named "Dog" which inherits the basic properties of the parent, and define more if needed.
While studying programmation, I often thought about the similarities with human's conceptualization. How concepts represents an 'image' of something, but each iteration of that something is always fundamentally different than its representation, akin to classes and objects, whereas classes are somekind of 'blueprints', 'setting the stage' so to speak, and each object is unique, has its own values, but most importantly, they are those that 'interact' with the environment (that have effects on more than itself).
Could particles be somekind of 'Platonic Form' and waves are actual 'iterations' of those? That is, only waves interact with the environment. Waves as actors.
ETA : Note that a wave can also be represented as a point circling around a center at a constant speed. In this case, the 'circle' formed by the motion of the point around the center would be the 'blueprint' AKA the particle, each iteration of a particle is the completion of one 'circling'.
As far as the apple tree is concerned, there's probably not much difference between a worm and a human...
Et le ver en dit : - Il y a toujours un pépin dans la pomme...