An unrepresentative sample of physicists (i.e. ones I talk to at coffee time) really don't think of electrons as *being* waves and particles at the same time. Electrons are a thing that can be *modelled* as waves and particles, and can exhibit both *behaviours* at the same time. Or not, depending on the parameter space. Asking what an electron actually is isn't quite relevant - it's a concept that adheres to certain mathematical properties that allows us to model and predict how the universe works.
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Date: 2017-04-20 07:32 pm (UTC)