The Discontinuous Spatiality of Quantum Mechanical Objects
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
The quantum mechanical wave-particle dualism is analyzed and criticized, in the framework of Reichenbach's concepts of phenomenon and interphenomenon. It is suggested that the dual pictures be de-emphasized in the study of quantum theory, and that a qualitative picture of atomic processes need not make use of them. In this connection we stress a view of the electron and other such particles as having discontinuous spatiality in time: they only have a place or a shape when they participate in a phenomenon.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0504125,
title = {The Discontinuous Spatiality of Quantum Mechanical Objects},
author = {Helio V. Fagundes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0504125},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure. Version 2 with a number of (mostly style) corrections