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Ok so from my understanding, the wave particle duality of matter is simply the fact that matter sometimes behaves as a wave and sometimes behaves as a particle. Ok, but I wonder if this has anything to do with the wavefunction. The wave function gives us the probability spread of matter at any location. That means that once we know where that matter is, the wavefunction collapses and probability is one. Now the part that I don't get is if we don't make the measurement, the matter is a wave and does this wave have the exact same spread as the wavefunction? That is, does the probability of finding that matter(or particle) at give point correspond to the actual amplitude of that matter manifested as a physical wave?