Timeline for Why aren't electrons waves by "default"?
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 11:39 | answer | added | ACuriousMind♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 11:23 | history | edited | user36790 |
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 9:33 | comment | added | bright magus | @ACuriousMind: "Quantum objects aren't "waves" or "particles", they're quantum states." Yet another state of ... matter? Or just a dead end? | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 9:24 | comment | added | bright magus | NicoA: "... there is proof of the fact that an electron is only a particle when we are observing it." How can you prove electron is not a particle when you are not observing it, since you are ... not observing it? | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 8:43 | answer | added | user36790 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 6:18 | answer | added | Sider | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 5:25 | comment | added | John Rennie | Nico, if I understand you correctly your question is basically the same as Fermion vs. Bosons and particle vs. wave: is there a link?, though I suspect this question may be posed a bit too technically for you. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 5:24 | comment | added | John Rennie | Don't close as unclear. The OP is basically asking why we concentionally treat fermions as particles (and implicitly we we conventionally treat gauge bosons as waves - well, photons as waves :-). That is, why do electrons appear particle like more often than they appear wave like? | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 23:27 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @Kyle Well, I think that ACouriousMind and I are the most vocal proponents and we'd be the logical candidates. Alas, the real world is commanding a lot of my time just now. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 22:53 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | @DanielSank: are you volunteering yourself? | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 21:11 | comment | added | DanielSank | Someone should write a really good explanation of the experimental reasons we sometimes think of electrons as particles and sometimes as waves, and then discuss the role of measurement, entanglement, and decoherence in the transition from wave-like to particle-like behavior. Wouldn't that be nice... | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 21:10 | comment | added | DanielSank | @ACuriousMind funny how although this question "isn't really meaningful" it's also one of the most interesting questions in physics and one of the most often asked and closed, despite the lack of any really good answers to it :-) | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 20:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 20:31 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | Quantum objects aren't "waves" or "particles", they're quantum states. Thus, this question isn't really meaningful. See also e.g. Is the wave-particle duality a real duality? | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 20:22 | history | asked | user72789 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |