So, I've had the weekend to reconsider wave particle duality and although I still find it to be extraordinarily strange, I haven't resigned myself to never accepting it... This is for a few reasons:
1. I remembered the willingness with which I accepted the string theory. The only real diffference between this and that is that it was something that I had no preconceptions or previous image of.
2. I witnessed the amazement of my 4 year old nephew who discovered that his ice 'disappeared' in his drink. Something which he believed to be solid wasn't anymore and there was no way to avoid the proof.
3. I have been trying to consider a way in which a particle can travel in a wave formation and experience interference etc and pretty much failed (of course I realise that most things have probably already been considered by people who actually know what they are talking about but Richard Feynman, an American physicist of the 20th century, once said that 'science is the believe in the ignorance of experts' so I figured I may as well have a go!)
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