E=mc2 (Albert Einstein‘s formula unifying energy [E] with mass [m] and relating both to the velocity of light squared [c2] ) makes a person suspect the apparently solid world of matter is really an illusion, and you and I are actually made of insubstantial energy. Superstring theory, which rose to the forefront of physics during the 1980s, proposed that the fundamental constituents of nature are not particles but one-dimensional structures called strings. This heightens previous suspicions, and we wonder if the one-dimensional structures are in fact pulses of energy. Then along comes “TIME Australia” magazine‘s Feb. 26, 1996 article “What‘s Hiding in the Quarks?” (which says subatomic particles seem to be made of even tinier things). Finally, we might feel justified in assuming our suspicions were correct and that these “even tinier things” MUST be pulses of electromagnetic energy (meaning all substances are indeed insubstantial).
All forms of electromagnetic energy (radio, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray, gamma) travel as waves. How do we create an analog structure like a wave from a digital structure like a pulse? By adding the necessary number of pulses to the medium in which a wave travels to form the wave‘s amplitude (height) and wavelength (distance from crest to crest). How could we create matter from waves? By superimposing waves of visible, gravitational*, magnetic, electrical, etc. frequencies into holograms (near the end of the ‘80s, the magazine “Scientific American” reported that holograms have been made not only with visible light and X-ra