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I appreciate that these two models are from different disciplines and as such are different. I don't personally have a problem with the distinction. However, my compliant is that these two models are sufficiently unalike to make the use of the same word a serious breach of the general principle...

This is something that's bugged me for a long time and since I don't have any particular expertise in the subject, maybe I'm missing something obvious. But here goes. I was taught that the term particle in QM is synonymous with quanta. That is, that a particle is the lowest excitation level of a...