Wave or Particle or Neither?
Wave or Particle? (According to Bohm – neither, but definitely closer to a wave)
As per Bohm (from the book Quanta and Reality) – An electron is a thing that is always forming and dissolving.
Think of a medium such as a field, and a ‘process’ within that field. Imagine a pulse within this field. It moves inward, coverges at a point and then dissolves away. Imagine a series of such pulses all converging on a single point. These series of pulses will be so close together, that they will appear like a particle.
When you ask how an electron passes through one hole or the other, Bohm’s response was ‘An electron is not the kind of thing that passes through one hole or another. It is something that is always forming and dissolving and in effect, moves through both holes.