Re: Waves vs Particles

Tom Donaly wrote:
Cecil, get Feynman's _Lectures on Physics_ Volume I, and
read the entirety of Chapter 38, "The Relation of Wave and
Particle Viewpoints." Quantum mechanics is a very successful attempt, using statistical methods, to explain the behavior of very small things.
In order to do that, it has to look at those things in very strange ways. If you want to read about the philosophical underpinnings
you should read chapter 8 of _Quantum Theory_
by David Bohm (a Dover reprint).

Thanks Tom, I will do that as time permits.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com
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