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Can the universe exist as only quantum waves without wave collapse?

asked Feb 14, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Mark Bryden

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Why does the bound particle wave function extend out to infinity: is it "merely" mathematical property or "real" physical thing?

asked Feb 14, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Isitreally

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If a double slit experiment is scaled up so that electrons become the size of marbles (and scale the "shooting range" proportionally) will a wave-like pattern from the shot marbles appear?

asked Feb 14, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by George Turnbull

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What if a proton is actually a wave instead of a particle?

asked Feb 13, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by stu1312

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What would the pattern on a screen formed by a double slit look like if the slits are of different width. Do you expect any change in fringe location?

asked Feb 13, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by james mcglade

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What is the slowest/largest/heaviest particle for which the double slit experiment works?

asked Feb 13, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Tired Dad 40

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What is the core of understanding a wave from a particle in quantum mechanics?

asked Feb 13, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Tickle pug plaster

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Has anyone solved the particle/wave duality problem?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by KEV IVERSON

+172 votes

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What causes ocean waves to get bigger or smaller?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Sadinit

+134 votes

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What if every point particle we observe is only a point in our dimension and a converging wave front on higher dimensions?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by doug2006

+84 votes

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Light is described by wave-particle duality. But QFT describes particles as oscillations in fields. So is light most fundamentally a wave? Is it right to say that light sometimes behaves as an obvious wave, sometimes as a not-obvious wave?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by CJK&B

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In double slit experiment, can the wave function collapse happen to light? In other words, if we put a light detector at the slits, will the pattern on the screen disappear?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by RadiantVortex

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Do particles exist? Diagrams show particles & subatomic particles as little spheres, to me this makes no sense because everything has to be made of something else. Would it be more accurate to view everything as weird overlapping n-dimensional waves?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by SeraphicNova

+324 votes

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If the “launched” single molecules are ad hoc (specially) prepared/manipulated for the purpose of double-slit experiment, how can we claim that “ordinary” (classical world) matter has wave-particle character, and not just the manipulated particles?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Colin Robinson

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What experimental evidence do we have for particles behaving as waves when we do not look, and why does this evidence show that particles have a wave-like nature?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by threeof

+104 votes

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With wave-particle duality, does the wave function effectively imply the particle can be anywhere? Can an electron potentially exist anywhere in the whole universe, and thus interact with any other particle in the universe, even if unlikely?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Jack Carrington

+240 votes

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Why is it a surprise that a photon is both particle and wave? Isn't the particle just following a wave pattern?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Stugadget

+16 votes

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Has anyone delayed the photon release in the Double-slit experiment to be days or weeks between each photon and does it still create the interference pattern? (Current theory says it will, but "Unperformed experiments have no results.”)

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by MidnightEcho

+2 votes

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What is duality, and what are some examples?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by bodget&scarpers

+59 votes

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Can all matter act as both a wave and a particle?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Wave Particle Duality by Scotmac

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