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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I asked the question in the wrong way.What I should have said was: how could you explain the behaviour of matter at the atomic or molecular level without using a wave-like model? A wave-like model that approximates particle-like behaviour more and more closely as you scale it up.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 16:30,
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That's fair enough for describing behaviour.I just don't like the metaphores and little thought experiments that go with all the descriptions of the sub atomic. An electon is not like a coin that has to flip twice to get back where it started, it's an electron, these are it's properties that's how it should be taught.
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Problem is, if you wanted to give a full explanation without any hand-waving, you'd have to go into the hard mathematics.But I agree that the metaphors and explanations most non-scientific folk are familiar with are clumsy and ambiguous.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 16:49,
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