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A diagram that displays the duality of matter?

War Is Greed
in Modern and Theoretical Physics

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Is there a diagram any of you are aware of that displays the duality of matter, in other words, the ability for matter to be a particle and a wave at the same time?

 

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I don't think there is such a thing because the nature of matter depends on the situation, I mean there isn't a single situation in which we can see a change between the two facets of this duality. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

Well you could imagine a particle travelling in a wave shape, however this would be technically wrong. Light isn't a wave and a particle, it is a 3rd thing which displays properties of both.

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