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@ Tuesday, 09. Dec, 2008 – 07:20:40
Clips from a BBC documentary explaining the arguments from the 1920's until now as to whether electrons are particles, waves or both. (Embedded from YouTube)
It outlines Einstein's distaste at Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and is a good starting point in realising that the universe is far, far stranger than can be imagined.
The_Walrus
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Munzly
Good point! 
kirky
That's better.
It's reassuring to understand that I can't possibly understand it.
Munzly
Thing is, the human race will keep plugging away until it does, or perish in the attempt.
kirky
Thanks to an old and clever friend (Robogeek), I've recently met and befriended a group of real scientists.
They are very different to me, but I find them fascinating.
I'm often amazed at the diversity of human abilities.
Like Strongmen or basketball players, they seem more like a variant species.
So, while I accept that the secrets of the Universe may be deciphered, I also know that it won't be by me.
jenray
Pro Very interesting, Munzly, particularly the last part..if you recall I said I couldn't imagine time as a particle but could see it as a wave...LOL...the last guy seemed to dismiss the particle part completely leaving us only with the wave...maybe that's why I couldn't see it...
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It's pretty much as I have been telling people who have trouble with quantum theory for ages.
If you try to think of electrons as being like something that is familiar to you, you will not understand. Electrons are not tiny cricket balls, and they are not tiny tsunamis. They are electrons, and they do what they do, which can be described using formulae. There is not something they look like.