The simplest example of contrast under identity is the phenomenon of vibration that characterizes
subatomic occasions (wave - particles).
for a human occasion and 10 - 24 secs for
subatomic occasions.1 Nor is any attempt made to allow for any possible «unevenness» in the genetic phases.
In PR he identifies
subatomic occasions with events which are only millionths of a second in duration.
Not exact matches
Also, it seems more reasonable to think of these periodic events as aggregate events which are the outcome of coordinated activities of constituent
occasions than to think of them as acts of single individuals (although Whitehead does identify
subatomic pulses with single actual
occasions).
If both human
occasions of experience and
subatomic events are best understood as syntheses of prehensions of other events, then their relation to one another is not as puzzling as has been supposed in the modern epoch.
The arrangement of the world's
occasions into an array of aggregates, organisms, and societies ranging from the
subatomic to the galactic, from the simple to the complex, has no limits.
But on the rare
occasions when one does hit a nucleus of hydrogen or oxygen, the collision can spit out another
subatomic particle, a muon.