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I understand wave-particle duality and the de Broglie wavelength, but if all mass with momentum has a wavelength, what does a human wavelength look like (anything other than ‘we are too big’)?

asked Jan 19, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by SeraphicPulse

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Why can’t a wave and a particle in quantum physics be the same as the particles of water and the waves that carry them along? This is the only situation in science that mentions that waves and particles are distinct and incompatible.

asked Jan 19, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by inventiverigid

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Do all particles vibrate? If so, how is the vibration different than the wave frequencies that particles display? Are they somehow related?

asked Jan 19, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by jimmy86

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Are the building blocks of our universe particles, or are they rather waves of energy?

asked Jan 18, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Deleted member 11267

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The wave-particle duality confuses me. Why can't we just say that a photon is a particle that is moving in a wave-y pattern?

asked Jan 18, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by 2shortplanks

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Considering particle/wave duality, can the existence of discrete quanta be explained as the wave amplitude?

asked Jan 18, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Rich_P1508

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What is actually a particle wave? What is the definition of a wave? How can a single particle show wavy behaviour? Is it some kind of a wavy displacement of a particle? Is it just a mathematical function in which the graph is a wave?

asked Jan 18, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by DC70

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How do you formulate the math to describe an observed particle failing to tunnel a finite potential well?

asked Jan 17, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by BillyBobToo

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What is the difference between light waves and matter waves?

asked Jan 17, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by firestop

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In the double-slit experiment, why wouldn’t the particles just move in waves? Postulating that particles in the quantum world just move in waves, as opposed to macroscopic ones that move in straight lines, would make so much more sense.

asked Jan 17, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Tim-mersey

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How does Newton’s Second Law (F=ma) apply to the photoelectric effect?

asked Jan 16, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by shauna

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How can the particle wave duality of the graviton affect time? Assuming that the graviton is a thing. Wouldn’t the super position of the particle, and we know gravity affects time, imply uncertainty of time (or space time)? Is this not a paradox?

asked Jan 16, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by NovaHorizon

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Have there been any double slit wave-particle duality showing experiments where the screen target was either a single nucleus or a large array of nucleuses, all targets of simple x-ray scattering off the nucleus(es) with final set of screen targets?

asked Jan 16, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by billzee

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Is it possible that our universe is both a wave and particle for something bigger?

asked Jan 14, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Lee87

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Does the photograph of light as both a particle and wave show that quantum fields are real?

asked Jan 14, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by NovaMystic

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If a particle is a collapsed wave function when observed, how do particles that make us exist as a particle rather than a wave function even though they are not observed?

asked Jan 14, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by NovaMystic

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How does an electron act as a particle and wave at the same time?

asked Jan 14, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Bodgitandlegit

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What happens to their wave function when a photon and an electron collide? Does it collapse? Do they act as mutual observers to provoque the collapse?

asked Jan 13, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by LunarHarmony

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Is it true that nothing is real until is observed (dual state wave/particle)?

asked Jan 13, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by fire

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What is wave particle duality and some of its basic aspects?

asked Jan 12, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Bazzy

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