• @VoterFrog
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    37 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
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      15 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.

      • @andros_rex
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        2 hours 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.