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minus-squarecynar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 hours agoQM 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.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-234 minutes agoThat’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.
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.
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.