Thus, according to de Broglie’s proposal, the dichotomy between particles and fields that had been a feature of classical theory is not respected by Nature! Indeed, anything whatever which oscillates with some frequency ν can occur only in discrete units of mass hvlc2. Somehow, Nature contrives to build a consistent world in which particles and field-oscillations are the same thing! Or, rather, her world consists of some more subtle ingredient, the words ‘particle’ and ‘wave’ conveying but partially appropriate pictures.
