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John Gribbin

“Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - particles can be located precisely. Waves, on the other hand, have no precise location, but they do have momentum. The more you know about the wave aspect of reality, the less you know about the particle, and vice versa. Experiments designed to detect particles always detect particles; experiments designed to detect waves always detect waves. No experiment shows the electron behaving like a wave and a particle at the same time.”

John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
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