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I have understood that an electron can be thought of both as a wave and as a particle. But I still don't understand why we can't give it a definite position...
I have understood that an electron can be thought of both as a wave and as a particle. But I still don't understand why we can't give it a definite position...
Thanks for the replies... they all helped.
So let me sum up to see if I got it right.
The electron is buzzing around and we have no way of predicting where it will be because of a fundamental law of nature (the uncertainty principle). The electron can be at any place given by it's wave function... (right?)
One final question:
Although we can't exactly "find" the electron, does it have a position in space? Logically, it seems that it should. (my logic has been known to be faulty.)
I think it is more along the lines of this:
"but it does not actually occupy that "location" until we measure the position (collapsing the probability wave)." .