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Somehow, I’m going back to the ‘me getting a hoof in the cheek’ story.  Imagine the quantum effects of the hoof as both a particle and a wave. A wave seems bigger and if you’re immersed in it, it moves your entire body.  A particle, like a bullet, is concentrated on a particular target.  Now with a bullet, the particle leads the wave, and so the entry hole is much smaller than the exit.  Sometimes, like in a wing of an airplane as it approaches ground, there’s a cushion effect; I’d like to say that that’s a wave leading the particle.  My point is on a macro scale, it can go either way: particle or wave first.  On the nano or mega scale, when time becomes slowed down just as the particle ‘hits’, then the wave has a chance to approach and pushes the target farther away, and this dance goes on until the target ‘decides’ it’s best position for survival or not.

Now I’m seeing this as a convection force of moist water vapor as it ascends, loses energy, condenses to water drop which heats it up and it ascends some more, condenses until if finally reaches a cold environment where it all condenses and falls. All this movement from grand gas to pointed drops creates ‘wind’ and waves it’s atomic particles about to push and pull the environment, from particle to wave and so on…

So what if Quantum Physics is just ‘physics’, where it gets really difficult to say because of velocities when something shifts from particle to wave, but everything does all the time, everywhere?

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A new ‘lens’ for looking at quantum behavior

At the heart of quantum theory is the idea that objects in the quantum worldwill sometimes behave like particles, and other times behave like waves. This ability to combine exclusive properties is called a quantum superpositionand is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.   

Duality has been the foundation of many ongoing debates in the physics community, the most famous of which was between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Ultimately the issue physicists face is that you can’t observe both wave-like and particle-like properties with a single apparatus.

Terno and Ionicioiu have tried to tackle this issue by asking - what if when performing experiments, parts of the apparatus are absent and present at the same time. What the researchers propose is that you can select the property being tested (wave or particle) even after the test is performed.

Known as a delayed-choice experiment, the photon in this experiment shows a “morphing” between “particle” and “wave,” supporting the conclusion that these properties are not inherent, but merely a reflection on how we “look” at it.

“Unlike the traditional approach, in this quantum-controlled experiment a single set-up is used to measure complementary behaviors, and they are revealed by matching the data about a photon with the data about the apparatus.  What we find is that behavior is in the eye of the observer, ” Terno summarizes.

Quantum Physics just blows the mind, doesn’t it?