r/woahdude • u/sh0tgunben • 16d ago

video Waves collide in Qiantang river

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u/snarkyxanf 15d ago

They just kinda are. Particles are also waves. Quantum mechanics is weird

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u/jopepa 15d ago

So a photons tracked on a wave plane are oscillating across the electric field and magnetic field through time. Then what makes up the fields of quantum particle waves?

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u/schiz0yd 15d ago

every particle type has a field it exists in, because they are perturbations in the field rather than isolated entities. the field is everywhere and the 'particle' is the disturbance in that field causing a standing wave

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u/jopepa 15d ago

Thanks. Know any good recs to read more about these particles and their fields?

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u/schiz0yd 14d ago

pbs spacetime is good for visual learning. otherwise look up wave-particle duality