Quantum Physics for Dummies - Is Electron a Wave or a Particle?

Quantum physics for dummies: what are electrons?
Everyone knows electron are particles. But are they, really? Quantum Physics is not so straightforward. Particles can sometimes behave like waves. So, is electron actually a wave? Technically, not either.

A simple experiment, called the double slit experiment first proposed by Thomas Young, proves that electron can sometimes behave like a wave. But, what is it that is waving? There is something that controls the electron. It is called wavefunction. But, we cannot see it. It's hidden from our perception and we can only see its' effects. Sometimes.

Next videos will cover more quantum weirdness. Turns out, quantum particles can be kind of influenced from the past.

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[danielmaylett]

I like how you said "quantum physics is weird". Couldn't have said it better :)

[harsh_nehra]

After searching a lot about what an electron is a particle or a wave .... I found really kudos to your efforts ❤... what an explanation I still have confusion about what a wavefunction is but at least it's clear to me now that an electron can be anywhere we can't exactly tell where it's located at a particular instant

[chariothandle]

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[redstatesaint]

I have a question:
When we say that something exhibits wave behaviour, we usually refer to some sort of oscillatory motion: like plucking a guitar string, air particles creating sound, etc.
So, does the electron also "oscillate" in a similar way? And what is the nature of the oscillation? In other words, what would one mean if we said that an electron also oscillates?

[enejedhddhd]

I have questions about the experiment. First did the gun fire one electron at a time or did it fire plenty of electrons at a time. Second what happens to the electron who collide with the detector. Third can we know how much intial electrons we fired vs how many where detected. Fourth is this experiment conducted in a vaccum??

[mydogbrian]

> Electrons are like a spinning airplane propeller blade. Paint a big red dot on its spinning tip & what you see is a fuzzy red blurr shaking in one spot. Just where exactly in a 2D plane is that blade at any moment? We know that it's anchored to a spinning axis so it's somewhere in that radial spin plane.
- An electron adds at right angle an additional or 3rd dimention to that spin, anchored rubbery magnetically to a proton, compounding the possible location & so the human desire to know where its at, , , at any given moment in time.
- When the electron interacts with something, its like the spinning blurry plane's bade tip hitting something. And hey!
We suddenly know where its at!

[robertsouth]

So particles are what happens while different waves are interacting in certain ways. What are those ways? Some kind of harmonic resonance?

[marialane]

What a great sounding voice! Thank you 🙏

[mattiasgrunewald]

Doubts:

Using the debroglie relation for wavelength of a particle and it’s momentum can we find the wave nature of an electron and will it be same as the probability distribution wave mentioned in the video

What does the actual physical motion of an electron look like? We know that they have a spin but is it possible for them to have a fixed path at all?

Larger objects are said to have a wavelength as well according to the same debroglie relation mentioned before. So does that mean that a chair or a table actually vibrates in a very small wavelength and that our eyes are just not able to comprehend such small oscillations?

[walidlamri]

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[captainclone]

It's both. When an electron interacts with the Higgs field it is a particle, because the Higgs Field has imparted mass to the electron, but when it is NOT interacting with the Higgs Field it is a wave.

[dadnoonan]

It’s a wave in multiple dimensions (4D). It collapses as observing requires taking one or more dimensions to locate the wave. The interference is disrupted by the act of observing. This is why it’s confused with duality. It’s a wave but when a harmonic wave interferes it creates the particle effect.

[legendparthgaming]

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[Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

This can be explained as waves over a period of time with a probabilistic future unfolding with particle characteristics relative to the atoms of the periodic table!

[jack.d]

Good summary of the wave function thank you. My question is how this relates to macro reality. Is sight a form of observation which is collapsing the wave function into the definite world we see around us? And is a wave in QM the same as Fields?

[vockski]

Hi. I always understood the double slit experiment to measure the wave properties of photons. I know that there is a relationship between electrons and photons, but are we literally shooting electrons out of this cannon, or are they transformed into photons in their free-flowing state?

[abikurian]

Can you please make a video on how particles actually propagate in the form of waves. Concept like simple harmonic motion, nodes, antinodes, sound waves etc.
I'm having a really tough time visualizing how a particle can simply oscillate about its mean position while moving in a wave.
Please answer.

[BitLeg]

What is an electron? It is something we can measure. What if we are only able to measure the nucleus of the electron but actually, from release, it breaks apart forming wave behaviour that bounces off the insides of the other slit and those tiny, unmeasurable particles, reflect back towards the nucleus and cause a wave like pattern?

[brandonallen]

When the light splits does it produce the same energy as the start point or is it broken up evenly from the start point? basically does it produce more or less or same energy..after becoming a wave.

[Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Could light and matter in the form of electrons be wave over a ‘period of time’ and have particle characteristics relative to the atoms of the Periodic Table when we have the absorption and emission of light?
Is the exchange of light photon ∆E=hf energy continuously transforming potential energy into the kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of matter, in the form of electrons, as an uncertain ∆×∆pᵪ≥h/4π probabilistic future unfolds?