I’m having difficulty picturing how this happens. Can someone please explain?
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If you’re picturing an electron as a little negatively charged ball that floats around space, then your picture is not accurate. An electron is not a particle. It’s also not a wave. Although it does have properties of both a particle and a wave. The best analogy I have heard was if you imagine a cylinder in a box, and you can try to roll the cylinder, but you can’t open up and look inside the box. When you roll it along the x-axis, it rolls like a ball. When you roll it along the y-axis, it rolls like a cube. So you say “sometimes it’s a ball, and sometimes it’s a cube.” When in actuality, it’s neither, but it has properties of both.
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