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Letter: Wave or particle? There's only one way to find out

Published 21 May 2025

From Robert Masta, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Last year, Matt Strassler explained that particles are really a kind of wave (21 September 2024, p 32). Now, Celso Villas-Boas says that no, they are really just particles after all(3 May, p 8). Arguments are traditionally settled with a duel. Electron guns at 20 paces? Or a more modern cage fight, with the mesh replaced by diffraction slits? Or perhaps a surfing competition?

Issue no. 3544 published 24 May 2025

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