A UNIVERSE OF WAVES NOW

“If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.”

- Neil Turok

“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.”

- John Tyndall

“To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?”

- Walt Whitman

“Heredity is the general expression of the periodicity of organic life. All generations belong to a continuous succession of waves, in which every single one resembles its predecessors and its followers.”

- Wilhelm His

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

- Henry Beston

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”

- Alan Watts

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

- Blaise Pascal

“If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.”

- Richard P. Feynman

“The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.”

- Jeffrey R. Anderson

“Light is a particle and a wave. This is hard to understand, how a thing can be two things at once. But a woman is also both a particle and a wave. She’s a wave when you see her reach down to pull a shell from the sea, and you feel her beauty pass through you like electrical current. She’s a particle when her hair brushes your face, and her hands push into yours.”

- Ken Kalfus

Read more about Beautiful Waves, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Chromatic Waves Now.

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PHOTO CREDITS:

1. Photo: by Paul Stein. “Massive Star Makes Waves.”
2. Photo: by Bill Gracey. “Smoke Wave.”
3. Photo: by Heather Wizell. Lily Wave.
4. Photo: by Tamara van Molken. “Green Wave.”
5. Photo: by Brian Hathcock. “Waves.”
6. Photo: by DAVID MELCHOR DIAZ. Leaf Waves.
7. Photo: by Olivier Jeannin. Waves and Leaf.
8. Photo: by amattox mattox. “Line Wave 1.”
9. Photo: Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Wave Clouds over the Western US.
10. Photo: by Walter A. Aue. “Petal Waves.”