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> where it is tough to come up with some distinct thing that could possibly act like a particle, but still diffract like a wave. Armchairing here. But as I und
by Double_Cast 13y ago
> where it is tough to come up with some distinct thing that could possibly act like a particle, but still diffract like a wave.
Armchairing here. But as I understood, objects in quantum-land are known as "amplitudes in the complex plane".
They behave like this all the time and under all circumstances, and should be understood on their own terms. E.g. squaring the height of pond ripples doesn't return a probability distribution. The "sometimes it's a wave, but other times it's a particle" idea is a historical artifact, like how humanity uses a base ten number system.