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Particles or Waves Striking the Shore

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What are the properties of the light that makes it possible for us to see the world?

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Or rather, that part of it in which we live?

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Scientists seeking an answer to that question have been unable to reach a clear and definitive conclusion,

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despite all their years of research.

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The main subject of debate with regard to light is whether the light particles known as photons

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are emitted as particles or as waves.

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In crude terms, does light travel from one place to another like particles?

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Or else like waves striking the shore?

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Light can sometimes be observed to move like the waves that form on the surface of the water

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when someone throws a stone into a swimming pool,

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and at other times it seems to possess the property of a material particle,

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striking at intervals like raindrops beating against the window pane.

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The interesting situation applies not just to light, but also to the electron,

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one of the fundamental sub-particles of the atom.

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The electron also exhibits both particle and wave characteristics.

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This situation caused great confusion in the scientific world.

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This confusion was resolved as follows, according to the words of the famous professor of conceptual physics,

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Richard P. Feynman.

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Now we know how the electrons in light behave, but what can I call it?

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If I say they behave like particles, I give the wrong impression.

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Also, if I say they behave like waves,

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they behave in their own inimitable way,

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which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way.

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They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have ever seen before.

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An atom does not behave like a weight hanging on a spring and oscillating,

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nor does it behave like a miniature representation of the solar system

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with little planets going around in orbits,

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nor does it appear to be somewhat like a cloud or a fog of some sort surrounding the nucleus.

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It behaves like nothing you have ever seen before.

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There is one simplification at least.

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Electrons behave in this respect in exactly the same way as photons.

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They are both screwy, but in exactly the same way.

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How they behave, therefore, takes a great deal of imagination to appreciate,

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because we are going to describe something that is different from anything you know about.

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Unable to account for this behavior of electrons, scientists gave it a new name,

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Quantum Mechanical Motion.

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Professor Feynman describes the perfection here by saying,

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Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, but how can it be like that?

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Because you will get down the drain into a blind alley from which nobody yet has escaped.

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Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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However, what Feynman mentions here as a blind alley is not in fact so.

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The reason why some people are still totally baffled is that despite all the manifest evidence,

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they still refuse to accept that a sublime creator brought these extraordinary systems and balances into being.

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Yet the position is crystal clear.

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Allah created the universe out of nothing, based on flawless balances and with no previous model.

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The answer to the question that Darwinists cannot escape, that they are unable to understand,

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that certain scientists keep asking them in the words,

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but how could this have happened, lies in the fact that Allah is the creator of all things,

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and that being came into existence through his commanding it to be.

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Allah has revealed this certain truth in the Quran.

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The originator of the heavens and earth, when he decides on something,

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he just says to it, be, and it is.

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Duck.

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Let's pray.