How a wave and particle can coexist?
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>From Huygens / Newton’s time the light from the
one hand is wave and from the other hand is particle.
‘ But what is light really?
Is it a wave or a shower of photons? ‘
/ N. Bohr /
How to understand this coexistence?
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The wave of air consists of air - particles.
The wave of water consists of water- particles.
The electric wave must consist of . . electrons.
The light wave must consist of light- particles.
So, to understand the wave phenomena we must
examine its single particle. What is a single
quantum of light? We don’t know.
Let us say that quantum of light is an abstract particle
and then put it into another abstraction ‘ Ideal gas’,
which has only one physical condition: T= 0K.
What is possible to say about this abstract picture?
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"The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory
starts from a paradox." / Heisenberg,
Physics and Philosophy, pg. 44./
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http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Complementarity/CompCopen.html
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