From a favorite Facebook friend, Dr. Robert Higgs:
Learning a little physics is dangerous: it can create an unsettling mental condition for a person. At times I dwell on the "fact" that nothing exists in the material world but electro-magnetic waves; it's the stuff of which every seemingly solid thing consists, and nearly everything we see is almost entirely empty space -- except for those pervasive waves, of course, which pulse through the universe and indeed through you and me and become, at a much different level of perception, the handsome young you with your beautiful head of hair and the superannuated me with my nearly bald pate. Waves, just waves; that's all there is in the lot of us.
But is that really so? Is my soul also nothing but waves? The materialists would say so, if they did not simply dismiss the question as meaningless. But what is the meaning to which they themselves refer? Is it also nothing but pulsing waves? And if so, in what sense can [we] say that it has meaning?
People who never got past the eighteenth century in their understanding of physics may have a big advantage in the retention of their sanity.
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