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Nikolai

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I have idea. Electron moving creates a wave that accompanies the particle all the way, but by observing the electron wave is extinguished and only a particle reaches the screen. Perhaps in some experiments, the scientists recorded particles and in others only their wave? Hence, the wave-particle duality.

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Hi Nikolai, welcome here!

 

You don't need to explain why the wave disappears at the screen, because it doesn't. This is a common but wrong interpretation of QM. The electron interacts with some particle (probably an electron) at the screen, it does so as a wave (more accurately, a wave describing both electrons at once). What we need is that when the incoming electron interacts with a single other at the screen, some properties of the electron don't split, like the charge.

 

I'd suggest you to check images by the atomic force microscope. They result from observing the same electron pair all the time, all over the orbital.

https://www.zurich.ibm.com/st/atomic_manipulation/pentacene.html

 

You could also meditate the X-ray diffraction by crystals. There, the photon isn't destroyed (at least when it contributes to the diffraction pattern) and it interacts with many atoms.

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We can taste it. Put one more couple of slit in front of screen. If wave will extinguished in the first slits as a result of observation, i think electron will generate waves again.

 

 

Already done. There are forms of interferometry that use multiple gratings.

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Hello Nikolai and welcome.

 

Some questions for you to think about.

 

 

 

Electron moving creates a wave that accompanies the particle all the way, but by observing the electron wave is extinguished and only a particle reaches the screen

 

If a moving electron creates a wave, where does the energy for the wave come from?

 

Does the electron loose energy as a result?

Can this be measured?

 

(Look up Bremsstralung

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung

 

)

 

If the wave is 'extinguished', where does that energy go to?

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