Thanks Humanino, that makes sense. It makes sense to me that the wavelength has to be maintained, and that it can't travel in a path that isn't a multiple of the wavelength, but then I don't understand how it can occasionally collapse (during electron capture).
If you could explain that a...
This question is probably pretty silly looking at the complicated discussions going on here, but I'll ask none the less.
Why don't Atoms spontaneously collapse? If there is a proton and there is an electron, shouldn't they attract each other and form a neutron?
In trying to understand why...