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I've been playing around with the concept of entropy and how it can be manipulated when I came onto the complex workings of quantum waves. To my understanding, everything we know as a particle is a wave on a quantum field. Those waves are the result of energy being introduced to, and then propagated through, the field---ei. The waves carry energy. Further, the wave's entire existence is defined by the energy it carries, no energy, no wave. This caused me to ask the question, is there anything in our reality that is fundamentally real? Is there anything that exists that is not just the extrapolation of the process of moving energy from a to b?

To be clear, I think that, to a certain extent, the fabric of space-time counts, but it's not what I'm really looking for. Space-time is what our reality is built upon, but it does not constitute it. It is the physical stuff that is built upon and held within space-time that makes reality, and it is from that that I ask if there is anything that is fundamentally real.

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It really depends on your definition for "real". If what you understand as "real" is something tangible which is not the product of "moving energy from a to b", as you say, then it will be hard to find such thing, as according to Quantum Field Theory, a particle is precisely an excitation in its corresponding field. Nonetheless, if you define "real" as "an absolute Truth which cannot be violated and which is necessary for existence to be as we experience it", then concepts like the speed of causality (the speed of light in the vacuum) are real.

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