The infamous wave-particle duality of matter disturbs many people. The term “wavicle” never caught on. Maybe it should have. The wailing takes the form: “Which is it? It’s gotta be one or the other. I must know!” The simple answer is that matter manifests as both waves and particles. Get over it. Is the infamous Schrödinger’s cat1 dead or alive in the closed box? If you open the box, you will discover the cat to be either dead or alive. Yet quantum physics tells us that if you don’t open the box, the cat is both dead and alive at the same time. Get over that one too.
