by Dan Bruce – April 2, 2025
Epistemic Status: Highly speculative. This is an exploratory synthesis of metaphysical inspiration and physical modeling. It is not intended as a complete or testable theory, but rather as a conceptual framework for discussion and critique.
Motivation
Inspired by the Genesis creation narrative and modern scientific advances in physics, this post explores a speculative model of the universe where the foundational structure is not matter, energy, or spacetime, but a primordial wave disturbance. The Genesis text begins with a void and the absence of light. Then a disturbance—”light”—is introduced, and everything else follows. In this model, that disturbance is interpreted as a fundamental wave in the scalar void—the first energetic fluctuation from which all matter, forces, and structure arise.
Darkness and the Initial Condition
The Genesis account describes a formless void and darkness. From a physicalist perspective, this can be interpreted as a state devoid of information, waveforms, or energy—a pre-physical substrate. This precondition is not simply a cold vacuum, but true absence: no interaction, no dimensionality, no time.
“Let There Be Light”: The First Wave Disturbance
The phrase “Let there be light” can be interpreted as the birth of the first wave—a fundamental oscillation that breaks the symmetry of the void. This wave is not simply electromagnetic radiation, but a universal disturbance that seeds all structure. Particles, fields, and spacetime metrics are proposed to arise as consequences of this primordial event.
In this view, waves are ontologically prior to particles. What we call “particles” are local modulations or constrained resonances of the original wave field—quasi-stable, localized packets formed by interference patterns within a universal harmonic structure.
A Speculative Energy Equation
As a tentative step toward formalizing the model, I propose the following energy equation:
E = m {sine (v/c)} c² + hf
where,
- E : total energy of the particle
- m : rest mass
- v : linear velocity of the particle
- c : speed of light
- h : Planck’s constant
- f : determined by the internal angular velocity of the particle
The first term modifies the traditional rest-energy expression by applying a sine function of the ratio. This implies that energy from mass depends non-linearly on motion through the wave substrate. The second term, hf, reflects energy due to intrinsic rotation or spin—quantum-like energy associated with internal structure or orientation relative to the wave field.
This equation is not derived from known physics but is instead posited as a way to capture the idea that both motion and intrinsic spin affect energy via the foundational wave background.
Interpretation and Implications
- The sine modulation implies energy-mass equivalence is not universal but velocity-contingent within the wave framework.
- The term ties rotational dynamics to quantized energy, hinting at a deeper link between classical rotation and quantum behavior.
- Mass could be interpreted as a standing wave configuration within the original disturbance.
- Photons, typically considered massless, might exhibit frequency-dependent effective mass during interaction, possibly offering a bridge between electromagnetism and gravity.
This framework offers a possible reinterpretation of several physical puzzles:
- Wave-particle duality: resolved by treating particles as localized resonances in a universal wave medium.
- Quantum non-locality: correlations may be understood as harmonics within the same global wave.
- Unification: gravitational and quantum phenomena might both emerge from different interactions with the wave substrate.
Conclusion
This model is exploratory and intended as a conversation starter. If physical reality began with a wave, and if all observed phenomena are emergent behaviors of that original oscillation, then perhaps we have been approaching unification from the wrong end—starting with particles and trying to reach harmony, rather than beginning with harmony and seeing particles as its local manifestations.
In the beginning, there was the wave.
Comments Welcome: I’m particularly interested in constructive critiques from physicists, philosophers of science, and others who enjoy speculative bridges between metaphysics and physics. Reply to: [email protected]