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Originally Posted by Ilya  Why oh why someone has invented the metaphor of vibration to explain the phenomenon of LoA? And why does this meme is still going around?
It is just a broken and inaccurate metaphor.
Point 1 is ok. Yes the modern science shows that the universe consists of energy in different forms.
Point 2 - "Energy vibrates." What that supposed to mean? Electromagnetic waves are not vibrations as we know them. The same way the quarks don't have flavors in the everyday sense.
Point 3 - "We vibrate, so we attract." This is just stupid. Where is the connection? It is not the everyday experience that two vibrating objects will necessary move closer to each other. And it is very easily proved with a couple of sex toys.  There is some forced logic here. And to make stupid into ridiculous a "like attracts like" is thrown into the mix.
Any school kid knows from the course of physics that "the opposites attract".
There are two sections of physics when we talk about things attracting or repelling each other - (electro)magnetism and gravity. In gravity all things attract each other similar or not. In magnetism, as I've said "opposites attract".
All this makes the whole argument absolutely laughable. Rational people like me just can't stand such arguments. It makes any pro-LoA argument smell of snake oil. |
I've thought the idea that same or similar vibrations attract is valid because of resonance. The analogy is not to be compared to gravity or magnetism but to sound and light. With sound a string will pick up the vibration of a sound and vibrate in sympathetic resonance. With light, I guess, it's like lasers and the light being coherent.
Our bodies have lots of real electromagnetic vibrations across a large spectrum only which part of our sense see or feel. And our vibe does influence sympathetic resonate vibrations in others and in the rest of the spectrum that we don't sense but are part of. Also we can pick up resonances too.
Anyway, that's how I've rationalized the ideas.