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    How do we identify one particular particle that moves ?

    I would, yes, a ball tends to gather distinct patterns of marks making it unique. That's right, we'd watch it all the way from one person to the other. Hmm, I wouldn't go so far as to include laws in this case. Our everyday experience seems to be that if an object maintains the same...
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    How do we identify one particular particle that moves ?

    Thanks, good answers because I was wondering how it would play when looking at it less simplistically. The everyday language of electron shells, quantum leaps etc. naturally makes one think in a certain way - of particles as whizzing pellets. But if one where to consider identical particles...
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    How do we identify one particular particle that moves ?

    Regarding a quantum leap, a particle goes from one place to another instantaneously - it is said - say an electron switching between levels. If a particle were to switch from one place to another, how would you know it was one particle moveing in space, and not two particles alternately...
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