Periodicals>Journal Article:  Bragg, Sir William (1922), Electrons and Ether Waves, Scientific Monthly, 1922, 14, 158, Retrieved on 2012-01-28
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Memes

28 JAN 2012

 Sir Bragg on the Wave/Particle Duality

No known theory can be distorted so as to provide even an approximate explanation [of wave-particle duality]. There must be some fact of which we are entirely ignorant and whose discovery may revolutionize our views of the relations between waves and ether and matter. For the present we have to work on both theories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles.
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Scientist work with them as having one characteristic some days of the week and the other on other days.

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