Comment by T-A

Comment by T-A 21 hours ago

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Thanks. I didn't find it because of the redacted parentheses.

What he's trying to explain without math is essentially the canonical quantization formalism due to Dirac, circa 1927:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_quantization

It's still the first approach to quantum field theory which physics students are likely to encounter.

His "wavicle" is essentially the field expectation value for a free particle. There is a nice animation (in the non-relativistic limit) here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

He seems to gloss over the connection to experiment though. Let's say you shoot an electron through slits in a screen and want to find out where it ends up using a photographic plate; you'll get a single dot somewhere on your plate, not an extended pattern. You can repeat the experiment with a new electron and get another dot, and keep repeating the experiment until all the dots form a pattern, in well known fashion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

The "wavicle" explains the pattern, but the pattern is made of dots...