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It's still called a particle because that's a useful abstraction, and also keep in mind that correctly identifying it as resonance happened much later than peop
by p_noumenon 5y ago
It's still called a particle because that's a useful abstraction, and also keep in mind that correctly identifying it as resonance happened much later than people first started to use said abstraction.
In reality, we know by now that there's no such thing as a particle:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3930 https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3930
- dr_dshiv 5y agoAt first, resonance was used as a programmatic analogy to guide understanding of spectral lines. Then, it turned out that resonance wasn't a metaphor, it was a mechanism.