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The surprising origins of wave-particle duality
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back. Credit: Thomas Young & Sakurambo/Wikimedia Commons Source: The surprising origins of wave-particle duality Who would’ve thought? I hadn’t been aware that the discovery of the wave-particle duality of photons, electrons and even larger structures of particles…
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