(July 7, 2019 at 7:56 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(July 7, 2019 at 7:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm going to say that the reason we have wave-particle duality for light is because both descriptions work at different times. Which may mean that we just haven't found a "complete" mathematical expression for it. You won't get me denying JC Maxell's work, though.
The "Particle/wave" issue is like "less filling/tastes great" "You got my peanut butter in my chocolate" "you got my chocolate in my peanut butter".
That somewhat trivializes it. In common parlance, fillingness and taste are two different properties which objects may possess. It is certainly possible for anyone object to have one but not the other. The slogan in fact plays off the insinuation that they are usually not both found in the same thing so anything that possesses both is a neat thing.
Wave/particle duality says what in everyday experience are two mutually exclusive states of being in fact not only can simultaneously describe the same thing same, but in principle It is impossible for anything to be one without being the other.
