How can particles be in two simultaneous states until it is observed when the probability wave is collapsed?

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How can particles be in two simultaneous states until it is observed when the probability wave is collapsed?

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What you describe is just one interpretation of what we can observe and its called the copenhagen interpretation. There is others like pilot wave theory that picture a small particle riding on the wave.

Its just that there are experiments(like the famous dubble slit experiment) that show that light is a wave and acts like one untill you try to measure its position, then suddenly it has a distinct position but is not a wave anymore.

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