Okay, here's something...
Twenty (or so) years ago, I was looking at a graphic which demonstrated the effect of gravity by placing a large sphere on a grid, with another, smaller sphere traveling around it. Given enough momentum, the smaller sphere would continue to orbit the larger one. The distortion in the grid (which represented the fabric of space) was distorted or stretched downward and adequately depicted, in a two-dimensional scale, how gravity works. I realized that the fabric of space is certainly not two-dimensional. It must be at least three. So picturing in my mind what a three-dimensional graphic would be, I concluded that gravity is a pressing force rather than a pulling force.
So...just yesterday, I was looking at a graph of a waveform. It was showing the nature of photons, electrons, neutrons (everything) and how such things can be particles while still exhibiting wavelike tendencies. There was an explanation about quantum physics and the likelihood of a single particle being found at any point along the graph. The base, horizontal line would be the least likely and the farthest-most positions on the wave would be most likely. Fine.
But wait! How about adding another dimension to that graph. Viewing it in three dimensions gives an entirely different result. Of course, I only noticed this yesterday and haven't thought it through very much at this point. However, as I see it, the waveform of light and other particles is not like a two-dimensional cutaway of ocean waves. It appears to be more like a coil...a helix...the threads on a bolt. A particle travels from one direction to the next along a helical path. When viewed in only two dimensions, it's a wave...but give it depth and it's a helix.
I'm not sure what to make of this observation yet but it seems that taking a slice out of the helix at a specific point will yield precisely where a particle is...so much for the uncertainly of quantum physics.
Back to the shape of the helix. If I think of the coil as being more like a Slinky than a bolt, I can imagine stretching or compacting the thing which would indicate frequency changes. If I imagine a greater or lesser diameter, I arrive at varying wavelengths.
Particles must be traveling (or existing) in a helical direction which appears to a narrow mind to be a wave. About hat helical direction...I think it's remarkable when considering it's the same shape as DNA. Maybe DNA is predisposed to coiling due to the nature of every particle in the universe. Coils, helixes everywhere. the helix shape probably did morph into longer strands...and pair up...this probably occurred at some time in Earth's distant past...maybe at the time of Pangea or another super-continent time...the random helical pairings then continued mutations through the ages and as the continents drifted apart...this would account for the existence of similar, but unequal versions of hominids found in so many diverse locations around the world. About those particles...I don't pretend to know how to describe their size and shape. They may be little, round balls traveling in the threads around a bolt. Maybe they're magnets with their charges on each end of a rotating thread or string. Maybe the magnets are horseshoe shaped, or bent threads. Maybe they are not bent magnets but just bent threads, pulsating or throbbing. How about circular threads, rolling forward. Maybe they're threads in the form of a helix and bursts of energy flow through them...or maybe the basic elements are shorter, arced threads that join together to continue around in a helix. There are countless forms to consider...and I've only had this one day. However, regardless of the size and shape...magnets or throbbing...pulsating...rolling...that internal, resonance...movement...would be the energy stored in each photon, electron, etc.
I don't think there are many original ideas left to put forth about anything at all. I suspect, just like everything else I've discovered on my own has already been found by countless others. To me, it's a fine thing that I see something for the first time...that I experience an event for the first time...maybe it never happened before, ever, anywhere. Maybe not. For now, I believe gravity is a pressing force. I believe whatever is called dark matter or dark energy exists throughout our universe and it is a continuous material...not particles. It permeates everything and is responsible for the forces extending from gravity down to the sub-atomic level. We (the essence of our existence in the form of energy or even particles) in this universe are simply intruders in a previously, unoccupied place. I believe waves are actually helixes and it's that helical tendency which created our form of life, via DNA. I suppose I should also mention that I believe in infinity...of time and space. Oh...lest that part be misconstrued...the infinity of space is not limited to our universe. I think this universe is a confined place...the dark matter of this universe seems to have nowhere else to go and that's why it resists the presence of all our matter. Beyond our universe...that's where infinity is. As to time...maybe it travels in a loop, a circle, a straight line...maybe it loops back upon itself or intersects along the way...maybe I'll find out someday.
Sorry for all the off-topic rambling. My purpose in writing this was to explain how I thing particles can act as waves. I just wanted to get this down in words now before I forget.
Uh...just a brief comment about String Theory...It's my understanding that the very basis of String Theory is that strings are one-dimensional. and may be curved or even circular...also, that they're vibrating. A point particle such as an electron or quark can certainly also be a line if viewed perpendicularly but if a straight line is vibrating it has to be at least two-dimensional. If a line is curved, it has to be at least two-dimensional. If it also has depth while pulsating, it has to have three dimensions. In any case, things occupying one, two or three dimensions should all be observable. Maybe a three-dimensional string vibrates into and out of an additional dimension, eh? At this moment, I'm not buyin' it...so I'll stick to what I can see rather than rely on dreams and imagined, alternate realities.
As to the Higgs field and the Higgs boson...the theory seems to be that immediately after the Big Bang, the various particles emitted traveled through the Higgs field and interacted with Higgs bosons thereby acquiring varying degrees of mass, thus assuming identities of quarks, electrons and such. There isn't any explanation as to where this Higgs Field came from and, more importantly, how there jut happened to be Higgs bosons already present. I disagree with the concept. Instead, I hold to my own idea...The Big Bang occurred in an already occupied space. That space was occupied by the dark matter, dark energy, ether, Higgs Field...whatever name one chooses to apply at any given time. It is that dark matter which altered the velocity of the ejecta from the Big Bang and caused the particles to interact with each other to acquire mass...rather than Higgs bosons. Higgs bosons are simply additional products of the event. It is certainly possible that Higgs bosons were among the first to acquire mass upon being spewed from the initial Black Hole exploding in the Big Bang...and shedding some of their mass to other particles when slowing down in the ether. In any case, I still maintain that the dark matter in this universe is confined to a limited space and exerts a force upon all matter as we know it. This includes gravity and all nuclear forces.
