• VoterFrog@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Well, famously, they’re waves and particles. The double slit which way experiment will only set off the detector in one slit, as if it was a particle. Yet, without a detector it will interfere with itself as if it were a wave that passed through both slits.

    • cynar@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      QM entities are quantised waves. You can make a wave look very close to a particle quite easily, a particle can never behave like a wave.

      Dumping the mental short hand of particle interactions is one of the main reasons most people can’t get their heads around it.

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        32 minutes ago

        That’s wrong though, and further belies my point about math, and perhaps needing to take a quantum class before talking about it.

        They are particles and waves.