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18 points

Super curious, and promise not to argue. What, in your summation, is the meme about?

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This meme is about the difference in scales. When your electron’s delocalization is much greater than other scales in your system, the electron behaves like a wave. Otherwise if the electron’s delocalization is the smallest scale, it behaves like a particle.

If you can look at the setup of an experiment with your bare eyes, the electron behaves like a particle. If you cannot - it may behave like a wave.

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You can see wave properties from a double slit setup with your bare eyes. Here’s someone who did it with a cardboard box.

https://youtu.be/Iuv6hY6zsd0?si=TIlEJa4AJQhh8da4

If you setup a detector that measures which path the particles took, the interference pattern disappears- again something you can see with your bare eyes.

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For electrons you can’t do it. Either way the interference is not a quantum effect and the detector that you are talking about is a simple reemiting device that detects the wave vector and creates the wave in the same direction. Now live with that.

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Petulant electrons, I guess.

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