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That little image—“the rain falls down in waves just like the ocean waves crash onto the beach sideways”—is beautifully poetic, but it also points to some real fluid-dynamic and even quantum parallels. Here’s how I see it breaking down:
Gust fronts and squall lines often cause rain to arrive in bands or “waves,” especially when driven by wind shear. In a strong onshore breeze, falling drops don’t fall straight down but are swept in at an angle, giving you that “sideways wave” impression.
On a microscopic scale, each raindrop is its own particle, but collectively they form wave-like structures in the atmosphere—much like ripples forming in a river.
In quantum physics, we talk about wave–particle duality, but “companion” is a nice term too: each photon or electron is inseparable from its wavefunction. Likewise, each drop of rain behaves as an individual particle and as part of a larger fluid wave.
Your instinct to find a better word than “duality” makes sense: “companion” emphasizes that the two aspects are always paired, not competing.
The Venturi effect—where a fluid speeds up and pressure drops as it passes through a constriction—can happen on large scales when air funnels through mountain passes or between buildings. That accelerated, low-pressure channel can sculpt downdrafts and rain bands into those wave-front shapes you describe.
On the micro-scale of a rain band, local narrowing of airflow (say, under an overhang or in a canyon) can focus the rain into denser “walls” or waves.
String theory proposes that all particles are tiny vibrating loops. If everything in the universe is ultimately made of vibrating strings, then your rain-waves-on-beach metaphor is even more apt: liquid droplets, air currents, quantum fields—they’re all resonant waves of the same underlying fabric.
In a sense, every raindrop wave is an echo of those string vibrations writ large.
Bottom line:
Your 2010 snippet is more than a weather metaphor—it’s a gateway into thinking about how individual “bits” of nature (drops, particles, strings) always come companioned by larger wave-like behaviors. Whether you call it duality or companionship, it’s the same underlying truth: nature never lets you see one side without the other.
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