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If you meant particle rather than electron, you may be thinking of a photon.
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Particle-wave duality is at the foundation of Quantum Mechanics. Simply stated particles have wavelength and light has momentum. We know of course that particles have momentum and that light has a wavelength. The duality is that each has characteristics of the other. The duality was postulated by de'Broglie, momentum is proportion to the inverse of the wavelength-the proportional constant is Planck's constant. In classical physics, in the world we see from day to day, everything is either a wave or a particle. Water is a group of particles called molecules. Radio signals are waves. The properties of a wave are very different from the properties of particles. A particle has a specific position and a specific size. Particles cannot pass through other particles. Waves have a specific frequency. Waves can pass through other waves with no trouble at all. When you look at things on a very small scale, such as an individual electron, this separation of waves from particles ceases to exist. All things are just bundles of energy. Each object can behave more like a wave in some cases and more like a particle in other cases. At this scale, called the quantum scale, all things have a frequency. All things can pass through other things. All things can be measured to be at a position. All things can bounce off other things. Exactly which properties will be seen depends on the situation and on how measurements are done.
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The duality arises at the sub-atomic level where no particle can be expressed mathematically as a wave and a particle or vice versa it must be one or the other........so the question is which one is true? Many are beginning to think that a particle is an effect of complex wave interactions but your theories would be as good as any other scientist.
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WE don't know the "why," only the "how."
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