Wave-Particle Duality and Diffraction

from the website of [the late] Prof. Kent Wilson, UCSD


Wave-Particle Duality

Quantum mechanics tells us that a system can behave as a particle or a wave, depending on how we, the observer, choose to measure this behavior.

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