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A question about wave/particle duality
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[QUOTE="tnich, post: 6012217, member: 639870"] Good questions. The problem with these tiny particles is, the assumptions you use in everyday life about how the physical world operates don't work. The only way to get a real grip on what is going on is with mathematical descriptions. Absent the math, wave/particle duality is a way to use familiar intuitive concepts to describe what the math is telling us. Sometimes the math tells us a photon acts like a bowling ball. Other times it tells us it acts like a wave. Those are just convenient analogies, so don't get hung up on whether a photon or an electron is a particle or a wave, or switches back and forth between those states. It doesn't. But to describe how it behaves it is convenient to imagine that it does. [/QUOTE]
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