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What does it mean by a particle is a "wave"
Hi everyone, I'm not even a science student, I'm just interested in Physics
I've read a lot of Physics books... but I still can't understand what does it mean by a particle behaving like a wave.
Well, I know that it is some kind of random or statistical, there's a wave function (Shroedinger) that can predict statistically the location of a particle...
At first I thought the particle is like moving in a Sine Wave, and that the particle is still a little ball... that was my first naive understanding (".. so, this is wave-particle duality, the particle is still a ball, and at the same time it is moving like a wave, that makes sense") (!?)
Then, I realize that it is not what I know, after reading the double-slit experiment
So, can somebody explain intuitively how it is like, I think it is not easy coz AFAIK what is actually happening "physically" in a wave-function is still left to many different interpretation (from Wikipedia, Wave-function page)
Is it like a sound wave-packet moving forward? but the wave packet is not made up with one particle, but by a media (air)?
also, I read somewhere that a theory states that a particle is actually a wave propagating/occupying an infinite range of space? (but of course have a limited area of most probable location)
I'm quite dis-oriented so please excuse me, and excuse me of asking such an entry-level question, thx
Hi everyone, I'm not even a science student, I'm just interested in Physics
I've read a lot of Physics books... but I still can't understand what does it mean by a particle behaving like a wave.
Well, I know that it is some kind of random or statistical, there's a wave function (Shroedinger) that can predict statistically the location of a particle...
At first I thought the particle is like moving in a Sine Wave, and that the particle is still a little ball... that was my first naive understanding (".. so, this is wave-particle duality, the particle is still a ball, and at the same time it is moving like a wave, that makes sense") (!?)
Then, I realize that it is not what I know, after reading the double-slit experiment
So, can somebody explain intuitively how it is like, I think it is not easy coz AFAIK what is actually happening "physically" in a wave-function is still left to many different interpretation (from Wikipedia, Wave-function page)
Is it like a sound wave-packet moving forward? but the wave packet is not made up with one particle, but by a media (air)?
also, I read somewhere that a theory states that a particle is actually a wave propagating/occupying an infinite range of space? (but of course have a limited area of most probable location)
I'm quite dis-oriented so please excuse me, and excuse me of asking such an entry-level question, thx