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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I like the way one of my university textbooks frames the particle wave duality thing: "A single pure wave has a perfectly defined wavelength, and thus an exact energy, but has no position. [...] [Whereas a classical particle] would have a perfectly defined position but no definable wavelength and thus an undefined energy" ^([1]^[2])

I am currently in my bed. I have a lot to do today, but I'm not sure how much I will get done because I don't know how much energy have. Thus I conclude you are right and that I am clearly a particle.


^([1]: Principles and Problems in Physical Chemistry for Biochemists, Price, Dwek, Radcliffe & Wormald, p282)

^([2]: I'm practicing being more diligent with citations, in hope that good habits will make it easier when referencing is actually important)