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Some experiments seem to imply that an electron can simultaneously occupy different regions of space; others again that it can be localized in a single tiny region. The same is true for photons, protons, neutrons, mesons, etc. Every microscopic object therefore seems to have a dual nature, which involves an extended phenomenon having the form of a wave and a localized phenomenon that behaves like a particle.
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Selleri, F. (1990). The Wave—Particle Duality. In: van der Merwe, A. (eds) Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1862-7_3
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