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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

the wave-like feature of interfering
with one another, they cannot be parti-
cles. Yet they cannot be waves either—
because, just like particles, they struck
the screen in discrete groups.
In this instance, the observations
suggest that the electrons are localized
particles when they leave the source
and when they arrive at the screen, but
Fred Alan Wolf
that they act as waves everywhere in
between. This is really very counterintuitive. 23
This experimental evidence did away with materialism, ac-
cording to which, every particle must possess an objective exis-
tence somewhere in space. Again according to materialism, an elec-
tron must follow a single course through a space and cannot move
through both slits like a wave which is not localized. Yet material-
ists’ expectations did not correspond to experimental reality.
The wave we are referring to here is different from a physical
wave that occurs in water. Electron waves do not exist in the three-
dimensional space in our physical world.
Fred Alan Wolf describes the wave concept in question:

When quantum physicists determine the probability of an event,
they calculate a number. This number arises from the multiplication
of two mathematical functions called quantum wave functions—or, as
I call them, qwiffs. Qwiffs are imagined to be real waves moving
through space and time. However, they are not real waves; they are
purely imaginal. They are not fields like magnetic fields or gravita-
tional fields. They cannot be measured. They have neither mass nor
energy. They exist in our minds and imaginations. That is, they do
not exist as we observe real material things existing. . . . The dy-
namic laws governing time loops bring a story into being. In other
words, when a time loop is created, the world we commonly and

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