(March 28, 2022 at 5:31 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(March 28, 2022 at 5:05 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: I tend to think of a particle as something like a cloud density of starlings.
As starlings move through the sky, there is a place where the density is very high and it appears to be a black dot as they come together.
A particle can be viewed this way as a wave that has an area of highest density.
I could be wrong in my assessment of this and most likely I am because I'm not an expert in the field. I'm just giving my viewpoint. Should any part of it be remotely accurate, it's by sheer coincidence.
If you think of all those Starlings as "pieces" of the electron wave, then the analogy isn't bad.
Just don't think of the electron as being "inside" the electron cloud. It is the electron cloud. There is no tiny thing zipping around.
If the electron is the wave, and it’s not zipping around, how is the wave a probability of location? Is this where we get into particles being multiple places at once, and quantum leaps, and weird stuff like that?
