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View SchemaOn Wave-Particle Duality
| Authors | W. De Baere |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0504043 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504043 |
Abstract
By means of a thought-experiment, consisting of an interference experiment with two interfering beams, it is shown that it can be demonstrated experimentally that with one single particle a wave can be associated which propagates in space and time as a physical reality, i.e. that it should not merely be considered as a distribution of probabilities. The notion "physical reality" should be understood such that, when this physical reality is considered in a particular space at a particular time, it should be experimentally possible to influence this reality in such a way that future results of experiments show unambiguously that this reality has been causally influenced by the experimental act in this space and at that time.
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