What exactly is wave-particle duality?

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Talking about both photons and electrons. Uncertainty principle is about position and momentum, but electron is considered wave?

We have mathematical model of light being EM Waves, what does it being particle even mean?

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Wave-particle duality doesn’t mean that a thing is both a wave and a particle at the same time, or that it’s sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle.

What it means is that photons and electrons and so on are actually a third type of thing, and at some times that thing is best represented by what we would classically call a particle, and at other times it’s best represented by the classical idea of a wave.

But in reality, it’s neither.

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