Can someone explain, in laymans terms, particle/wave duality?
Excuse me but how does For example, unless something is being directly observed, it ceases to exist?? Result from (even if this second were true)? “When you are not looking, the object is a wave, when you are looking, it is a point/particle” If this were the nature of wave/particle duality (it isn’t), what is to say a wave doesn’t exist and a particle does? Are we supposed to believe that when an electron behaves like a wave it doesn’t exist and when it is like a particle is does? The usually place the “directly observed” comes up is philosophy where people confuse event and observation – “If a tree falls in a forest where no one is to hear it, does it make a sound?” [If sound is something heard by someone living and all the animals don’t count, then no. But if sound is air vibrations that may be heard by a human or not, then yes it makes a sound! Foolish.] The particle/wave duality occurs at the quantum level and is disturbed by our observations. There is one famous experiment where d
