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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
I've got nothing against waves--but you look at a wave on the ocean moving, it's got both a definite position and momentum at any given moment.
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You think a wave has a definite position? No, the excellence of using the "wave" concept to describe the information we have about a particle's notion is precisely that we do not know "the position of the wave". Remember, for a wave to be associated with a definite momentum (in the quantum mechanical sense), it must be the mathematician's sine wave, not the surfer's "ultimate wave"-- the mathematician's wave repeats periodically over a huge distance. Ergo, it has no "position" to speak of. Our descriptions of particles' position is just like that.