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Philip Ball

“We can’t explain this result in terms of particles, but only in terms of ‘electron waves’. And whereas we might have been content enough to believe that electrons in a bright beam are wave-like and can be diffracted by the double slits, it is hard to understand how one-by-one passage of what seem to be particles (judging from the discrete bright spots that appear on the screen) can produce wave-like interference. We’re forced to conclude that ‘wave-like’ electrons can interfere with themselves.”

Philip Ball, Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different by Philip Ball
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