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by Razengan
3578 days ago
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Or you can simply think of it as the best "resolution" that macroscopic instruments rooted in 3 dimensions can reduce it to. I feel like the whole "wave-particle duality" is already a hint that the true nature of reality may always remain outside of our observation capability. In fact, I think that humans may be a little too biased towards picturing everything as made up of discrete parts ("particles"), and that is probably a byproduct of having visual eyesight. Can't wait to meet alien intelligences with completely different senses and see what they think. :) |
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Wave-particle duality is a bit of a misnomer it's more of a pop-sci concept, all particles are defined by their wave function and there isn't a "particle function".
And if you think that we are too biased towards picturing everything made out of discrete parts then you won't like QM which is basically what the Q stands for which is "quanta" as in the smallest clump-thing-w/e of something.
That said most people that choose to study physics in high school (year 10-12) and or college would be exposed to Quantum Field Theory which makes everything make considerably more sense when you start thinking about everything in terms of fields.
Once you no longer think of an electron as an individual thing but as a electron field that extends through all space and the particles are the quanta of that field as in localized excitations of the field which when they reach a certain amplitude or energy level bring forth something we can measure and identify as an electron.
I wish QFT would be popularized more because it would bring so many important concepts into the common sense realm and it would actually be easier to explain things like why do particle accelerators work.