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A question about wave/particle duality
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[QUOTE="Orodruin, post: 6012207, member: 510075"] This is not a very good way of describing it. The wave-particle duality is a concept that was used when quantum theory was first developed about 100 years ago. A more accurate statement is that subatomic particles are best described as quantum particles in a quantum field theory. These quantum particles have some properties that you would typically associate with a classical particle and some properties that you would typically associate with a classical wave. In other words, a quantum particle does not take the form of a classical particle or wave, it has some properties associated to those concepts and depending on how you do experiments with it either the particle or wave properties make themselves prominent. [/QUOTE]
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