Waves lap at the bedrock of being, beyond the scale of atoms, beyond the scale of stars, to wash up something elemental about what this is and what we are. Virginia Woolf described the relationship between consciousness and creativity as “a wave in the mind.” In quantum physics, a probability amplitude known as the wave function describes the behavior and properties of particles at the quantum scale. In the cosmogony of classical physics, a partial differential equation known as the wave equation describes how water waves ripple the ocean, how seismic waves ripple rock, how gravitational waves ripple the fabric of spacetime. In many ancient creation myths, everything was born of a great cosmic ocean with no beginning and no end, lapping matter and spirit into life.
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