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Understanding science: what we cannot know
Understanding science: what we cannot know

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2 Waves or particles?

One of the fundamental features of quantum physics is the ‘wave-particle duality’, which refers to the fact that, depending on the experiment or type of observation, a system can exhibit either particle- or wave-like behaviour.

The following video introduces this section’s concepts (and takes it a step further, in arguing that the question of whether an electron is a particle or a wave is actually quite a meaningless one).

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Video 2 The wave/particle paradox
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