Are all particles and fields just vibrations in an energy field?

Something like that, but we still do not know the details. The folks working on the Theory of Everything reduce particles to vibrating 'strings' of energy. When a unification theory including gravity is finally developed, we will see through tedious mathematics, that all particles and fields are related to the gravitational field of the universe by a series of mathematical operations. Gravity is in some sense the ultimate field.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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