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Old 10-31-13, 05:24 PM   #9
Red October1984
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
You are stepping beyond the border beyond which dualistic thinking makes no more sense. There is a reason why light often is referred to as having a dual nature, being a wave (no particle) and radiation (particle, photon) - you can prove both natures by choosing an according experimental design, it has been done, and repeatedly, so its confirmed. It's crazy, but we have to live with it.
Also mind you that on quantum levels, "particles" no longer are or could be understood as existing entities of something or that quantums are materialistic quantums. A quantum is a certain ammount of something. The term to point out here is "tendency". Meaning the tendency for existing for a given timeframe, or not. Also, "probability clouds". Particles not necessarily exist for sure, but have a tendency to exist only in a given point of space and time. And a quantum also could be described as a (varying!) ammount of tendency for something to exist for a varying ammount of time.

Quiz time: what is that "something"?

It's all crazy down there in the quantums. Physicists sometimes say those claiming they have understood quantum physics by that give proof that they have not understood it. You "can not" understand it, not in the way you understand ordinary life in the ordinary world. And even that ordinary life often does not make sense, does it.
Well said.

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby View Post
Now shorten this up so RED OCT can UNDERSTAND IT or he'll think I wrote it
Nah...I knew you didn't write it because it didn't have repeatedly varying font sizes and formatting combined with strange made-up words.

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When are you guys gonna quit doing his homework?
It's not my homework! I swear.

My homework is easier to think about than this.

Now if you guys wanted to do it....

Who am I to object...
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