If an electron is thought if more as a wave than a particle, how does it have a mass?

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How old are you? This is not an insult. I am asking because here we study wave-particle duality in high school curriculum.

It basically means that everything behaves BOTH LIKE A WAVE AND A PARTICLE. Not just one of them. So electron has a mass when we treat it as matter, and wavelength when we treat it as a wave. Same goes for light. We have wavelengths corresponding to different colours and we have mass associated with a ‘photon’ which is essentially light as a particle.

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