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Thanks for the reply. This makes me think of the dual slit experiment. Does the universe treat everything as a wave to save CPU cycles or something? If we thi

Thanks for the reply. This makes me think of the dual slit experiment. Does the universe treat everything as a wave to save CPU cycles or something? If we think of light as little balls (at our size i think that would make sense). If we were much bigger, we would think of these longer waves as balls too?

SJC_Hacker 2y ago
Wave-particle duality/quantum mechanics have different interpretations, but since "the math works" and there's nothing better, thats what they go with. One way of thinking of it - everything is a wave until you make a measurement. Then you get a "collapse" (localization) of the wavefunction. Which leads to the question of why the wave function collapses - i.e. how does nature know we want to make a measurement. Which leads to all sorts of crazy ideas like the simulation hypothesis. Which is not a scientific theory, because you can't falsify it, but even very educated people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson have remarked on it.