Deciphering the Enigma of Wave-Particle Duality

TL;DR

This paper proposes a realistic interpretation of wave-particle duality, viewing particles as holistic wave packets of quantum fields, explaining quantum phenomena like wave function collapse and uncertainty.

Contribution

It introduces a novel perspective that treats quantum particles as real wave packets, providing a unified explanation for quantum behaviors and measurement outcomes.

Findings

Particles are real wave packets of quantum fields.

Wave function collapse is explained as acquiring the entire wave packet.

Quantum uncertainties arise from the holistic nature of wave packets.

Abstract

A reasonable explanation of the confounding wave-particle duality of matter is presented in terms of the reality of the wave nature of a particle. In this view a quantum particle is an objectively real wave packet consisting of irregular disturbances of underlying quantum fields. It travels holistically as a unit and thereby acts as a particle. Only the totality of the entire wave packet at any instance embodies all the conserved quantities, for example the energy-momentum, rest mass, and charge of the particle, and as such must be acquired all at once during detection. On this basis, many of the bizarre behaviors observed in the quantum domain, such as wave function collapse, the limitation of prediction to only a probability rather than a certainty, the apparent simultaneous existence of a particle in more than one place, and the inherent uncertainty can be adequately understood. The reality of comprehending the wave function as an amplitude distribution of irregular disturbances imposes the necessity of acquiring the wave function in its entirety for detection. This is evinced by the observed certainty of wave function collapse that supports the paradigm of reality of the wave function portrayed in this article.