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2 - What's It Like to Discover Quantum Mechanics?

Why This Universe?

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Is Everything Both the Wave and the Particle?

Bohr showed that electrons are too. And so you can't help but think, is everything both the wave and the particle? And the answer is, yeah. But if you take an electron in some atom somewhere, electrons are moving really fast around atoms and they're very light. The typical electron is moving at like 20 million miles per hour or something like this around an atom. That thing will have a wavelength of like 10 to the minus 20 meters. You just can't notice that that's not very wavy.

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