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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 16:46:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Wave particle duality has been disproven for photons also.
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On 05/27/2025 08:49 AM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2025 9:37:57 +0000, Paul.B.Andersen wrote:
>
>> Den 27.05.2025 05:27, skrev LaurenceClarkCrossen:
>>> Particle wave duality is no longer accepted as it has been
>>> experimentally disproven.
>>>
>>> The question regarding photons is still disputed.
>>>
>>> "Did We Get the Double Slit Experiment All Wrong?"
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpMcC-E5l5c
>>>
>>> Light is a wave and not a particle.
>>
>> Got it upside down and inside out again, Laurence? :-D
> You do not even attempt to be persuasive.
>
>
> "AI Overview
> The idea of wave-particle duality, often presented as a fundamental
> concept in quantum mechanics, is not a widely accepted or accurate
> representation of quantum phenomena. While particles can exhibit
> wave-like behavior, and waves can exhibit particle-like behavior (like
> photons), the core concept of wave-particle duality is often
> misinterpreted and oversimplified. The wave-function, which describes
> the probability of finding a particle at a given location, is not a
> physical wave itself, and particles are not simply "waves" that
> occasionally act as particles."
>
>
>
> "Why do Physicists talk about Wave Particle Duality?
> A common question I got from my last article is why physicists still
> talk
> about wave particle duality if it has been invalidated by experiments.
> The
> truth is most professional physicists don’t talk about wave particle
> duality,
> and it is a dying concept. You may often hear physics popularizers talk
> about wave particle duality in order to “mystify” their audience with a
> heavily simplified concept. This gives viewers the false impression that
> wave particle duality is still a legitimate concept, when in reality it
> is not.
> Historically though, wave particle duality was a thing in the early days
> of
> QM, but as Feynman says in one of his lectures,“The wave function ψ(r)
> for an electron in an atom does not, then, describe a smeared-out
> electron with a smooth charge density. The
> electron is either here, or there, or somewhere else, but wherever it
> is, it
> is a point charge”  In modern textbooks of quantum mechanics and quantum
> field theory, talk of wave-particle duality is absent. Examples include
> Weinberg and
> Peskin and Schroeder." - "Wave Particle Duality Debunked Part 2"
>
> Wave particle duality is not real. It's been invalidated by experiments
> so light must be a wave.

Heh, naif.