1. At extreme dilutions, particles and waves are interchangeable. [QM] Waves persist in a fluid unless lost to friction, transference, evaporation, radiation, etc. [TD]
1a. (naked assertion) Waves are beneath atoms, beneath even quarks, waves are continuous, immaterial energy, observable through the movement of matter, the pattern of energy transfer between quanta.
1b. (support) see Bénard cells, which exhibit hysteresis.
2. Agitating and vibrating dissolved particles in fluid transfers energy to waves.