14-November-2003, 10:52 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 4,290
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Tim Thompson: But that is the root of the great wave-particle duality. The photon is, simultaneously, both a particle and a wave, and will appear at any measurement, to be either of those, whichever the experiment is designed to detect. It's no use complaining that "it can't be", because "it is", whether we like it or not.
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I think the wave-particle duality is the most fascinating aspect of matter. Diffraction of electrons - remarkable!
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