Turning Waves Into Particles

In this video I will assume that space is a non-linear elastic medium in order to investigate if it is possible to confine wave energy locally. Video Contents 01:05 Inertia and energy 11:30 Elasticity and non-linearity 15:41 The vacuum as a medium 20:34 Coffee break ;-) 21:37 Non-linear behavior of the vacuum (the Schwinger limit) 25:25 Model and simulations explained 36:10 Creating waves and making particles Light is Heavy by M.B. van der Mark, G.W. 't Hooft: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06478 The Schwinger limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit This subject was brought to my attention by Piotr Auguscik. Thanks! Great video on the backgrounds of Compton scattering and wavelength by @PhysicsExplainedVideos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGy7nsC8O_Y I used the following image sources: Laser- and Crystal images: @LesLaboratory Leslie makes great content on DIY lasers! "Gerard 't hooft": photo by Wammes Waggel - Eigen werk "Solar Sail" image owner: Andrzej Mirecki All animations were made using the code supplied by @DiffractionLimited channel The current version allows for some non-linearity to be simulated and can be downloaded from: https://github.com/0x23/WaveSimulator2D I made a few adaptations of the original software version by @DiffractionLimited. This version works differently in the sense that it uses the green channel to specify a potential energy distribution and not to specify sources and their frequencies. Code and some examples can be downloaded here (I will clean the code and add better examples in the upcoming week): https://www.huygensoptics.com/assets/2D_wave_sim_mod.zip To create initial wave states, I wrote a small Windows app. Use at your own risk, it's not digitally signed and not very well written code. PLEASE NOTE: this software uses the computer's local definition of decimals (either point or comma). Using the wrong character will lead to either the wrong results or make the software crash! The VB.net source and executable can be downloaded here: https://www.huygensoptics.com/assets/wave_state_creator_app.zip https://www.huygensoptics.com/assets/wave_state_creator_source.zip Special thanks to Nobby Assmann for Points and Comma's! Did I forget anything/anyone? Please let me know in the comments and I will set it straight.