Electrons are one of those funny things that sometimes look like a wave and sometimes look like a particle. Not that we fully grok all the quantum weirdness. Maybe we half understand it, ...

What's less clear from a lot of these stories, though, is what this has to do with particle physics. For that matter, what does it even mean to talk about the electron having a shape? As ...

Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantum entity may be described as either a particle or a wave. It expresses the inability of the classical concepts ...

Moreover, as all the outer magnetized planets have electron radiation belts and all have been observed to support whistler mode waves, acceleration by gyro-resonant wave–particle interactions ...

Here's one of the quirky things about quantum mechanics: just because an electron or a photon can be thought of as a particle, doesn't mean they can't still be though of as a wave as well.

but don't have much effect on how a wave moves. In his experiments, the cathode rays bent over to one side, so Thomson knew the cathode rays must be made of some small particle, which he dubbed a ...

The wave-particle duality is one of those essential pillars. Physics courses devote weeks to just introducing it – but there ...