Xris: There are as many definitions of God as there are religions, and possibly as many definitions of God as there are people. If you can't find a definition of God that works for you, then make one up. That's what I did.

Holiday: The physical sciences tend to define reality as that which can be detected/measured by one or more of the five physical senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching. Some metaphysical persons define reality as the underlying energies which create the "illusions" of physicality. What is your particular understanding of reality? Would you be prepared to adjust your concept of reality to fit your own experiences?

If you already have the answers, you don't need to ask the questions.

Even for mundane things, like what is the speed required for take-off rotation for a particular aircraft, I need to know how to ask the right questions of the right people.
When I learned how to ask the right questions about more serious things, and learned to keep myself open and receptive to new concepts, I got insights and realizations, which were far more profound and exciting to me than just answers. In fact, the insights and realizations I got usually led to many more questions. Each iota of "knowing" which I acquired, revealed to me an infinity of "knowings" which are available, when I am ready for them.

Don't we need answers to have questions?

..or is matter displayed as energy vibrating to form matter.

Some metaphysical persons define reality as the underlying energies which create the "illusions" of physicality.

But, from a state of consciousness like Consciousness-Without-An-Object, comes the realization that every energy form in the universe, from the smallest atomic particle to the largest galaxy, interacts with every other energy form in the universe with similar resonant characteristics. A complete explanation for any phenomenon involves energy changes in every element in the universe.
So, to embrace the entire complexity of elements involved in any phenomenon, one would have to say that the phenomenon is an Act of God.

I understand all this already. I'm talking about the particle as it is. Particles and waves are so very simple, and a wave is really just a circle.

I must be dense..i cant imagine vibrating energy as matter..or is it just energy thats vibrating or is it just a vibration ?..Energu is matter but matter is energy..so how do we distinguish them in reality? is observable energy matter vibrating too much...or is matter in balance an energy out of balance ?:perplexed::perplexed::perplexed:...

Depends what you mean by matter. I think most people think of substance which has mass (weight, inertia) and charge (can be touched). Thus matter particles are the likes of electrons, protons, neutrons, etc, as opposed to photons.

First of all, particles don't vibrate in space like a guitar string. Well, they do when in molecular chains, but individual fundamental particles are fluctuating in amplitude rather than space, so a point on an particle wave that has zero amplitude has zero particle there. This amplitude fluctuates in both space and time.

Perhaps one thing that would resolve your problem of picturing vibrating waves as matter is the idea of confinement. Take, for instance, an electron orbiting a nucleus in an atom. The electrostatic field of the neutron confines the electron to a fixed volume: the volume of the atom (or thereabouts). Within this volume, the electron 'vibrates' (oscillates in amplitude). Imagine, for simplicity, a wavy circle.

I have understood the molecular theory but this is something different ..we are told that matter is just vibrations ..energy..not solid as we imaging..

Solid? What about liquid? What about gas? What about plasmas? 'Solid' is an electrostatic phenomenon: interactions between atoms and molecules that tend to keep fixed their mutual distances, that distance corresponding to the lowest possible energy of the system. One cannot conceive of a 'solid' fundamental particle: if it is solid, it has an underlying structure and is thus not fundamental.

You first have to think about what you really mean by solid. That if you push it, it moves? This is electrostatics: matter particles behave the same way. That if you weigh it, it has mass? Matter particles have mass too, either through some mechanism (standard model) or on account of its confinement (mass = energy at rest).

Thank you for your attention..no i can see the difference between liquid and solid..of course..Its not basic physics, its this theory that solid is not as we originally explained it..Molecules made up of atoms then it was even smaller definitions..then we have nothing but vibrations strings..when do we describe vibrations as energy when is it mass..if i sing the right note will i make a fruit sponge??

Not a fruit sponge, but will you settle for something smaller? Matter particles are created in pairs (particle and antiparticle) out of the vacuum. You can thinking of it as high energy (rapidly vibrating) photons splitting neutral space into positive and negative parts in a small region. Remember, photons are vibrations in the electric field, and positive and negative charges move in opposite directions in an electric field. Unfortunately cake and anticake excitations, though, are not on the menu.

Sorry my mind cant cant translate that leap from vibrations to something tangible..are photons mass or are they vibrations or are they vibrating mass..if they are mass what is their parts? are they vibrations?..oooooo much too much...The whole universe is made up of songs ..a song for iron one for silver..one for gold ...that must be diffucult song ..HUMMMMM thats a fart..

Photons are massless, chargeless energetic particles. Massive, charged particles are created by photons 'exciting' them out of the vacuum. These massive particles are themselves 'vibration', or waves. However, since they have charge (except for neutrinos) we tend to find them confined to small volumes of space (atoms) of no net charge. This gives atoms a 'billiard ball-like' character. Since the atoms are comprised of waves interacting to form a system, they still have a wavefunction, however this wavefunction has an incredibly short wavelength such that it appears the atom is more continuous and 'solid' (in the way I think you mean) and the amplitude of the wave attenuates to zero rapidly with distance from its centre (~ 0.0000000001 metres). Thus from waves you get the stuff of stuff.

So are all photons the same?

these photons are they energy of no mass ?

When we get right down to it, this energetic vibration, is this the energy that creates mass.is that it?

What maintains this vibration,where does it energy come from..you cant have constant energy it must disipate

..aahh you cant loose energy on change it..why is that?

I could never understand magnets clinging to each other for centuries ,where does that energy come from why does it not suddenly say ive had enough im worn out..

It seems to me we cant really understand anything only describe its appearance ..Its so very hard to believe that the energy that was created at the BB is exactly the same amount as we have now..Constants of this magnitude for me are too difficult to comprehend.