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Light
(Gnergy, Gnergons)
Ontology
Epistemology
Particle
(Energy, Ergons)
Wave
(Information, Gnons)
Fig. 6.13 Light as gnergy or the complementary union of information (gn-) and energy (
ergy).
Gnergons are defined as discrete units of gnergy; ergons are discrete units of energy; and gnons are
discrete units of information. The double labeling of each node is necessitated by the continuity-
discontinuity complementarity
1. The “horizontal complementarity”
Energy/Matter and Information (or Life-
Information, Liformation; see Table
2.6
) as the complementary aspects of
Substance.
2. The “vertical complementarity”
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Ontology and Epistemology as complemen-
tary aspects of Reality.
3. The “complementarity of complementarities”
The “horizontal” and “verti-
cal” complementarities as complementary aspects of Reality.
TTR described in Fig.
6.12
suggests that Wheeler is primarily concerned with what
is here called the
horizontal complementarity
without acknowledging the third term,
Substance
, and Bohr may have glimpsed both the
horizontal
and
vertical
complemen-
tarities when he stated that “Contraries are complementary,” since this statement can
be shown to be recursive on the concept of complementarity (Ji 2008b).
TTR may shed a new light on the long-lasting debate between Bohr and Einstein
on the interpretation of quantum mechanics (Murdoch 1987; Petruccioli 1993;
Cushing 1994; Johansson 2007). For example, the reason that we observe the
wave property (interference patterns) and particle property (photoelectric effects)
of light (and other quantum entities generally referred to as quons [Herbert 1987])
depending on the measuring apparatus used may be because
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Light is BOTH waves and particles even before it is measured.
(6.44)
In my lexicon, light as directly observed by the human eye (before measurement)
corresponds to gnergy which appears as either waves or particles depending on
which measuring apparatus light has gone through. This situation can be described
diagrammatically as shown in Fig.
6.13
:
Two observations seem to support the triadic interpretation of light:
1. A stream of electrons arriving at a screen past a hole one at a time produces
the
Airy pattern
characterized by a set of dots that form concentric circles, the dots
