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Does Higgs field play a part in between wave-particle nature of matter at the quantum level?

Or whether the transformation between the particle and wave is direct?

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dawgdays - you said 'sometimes seems particle like and sometimes wave like' and this is what i want to know - whether Higgs field play a role in this transition or not? I am not interested in rest of the theory. Thanks.

Update 2:

dawgdays - you said 'sometimes seems particle like and sometimes wave like' and this is what i want to know - whether Higgs field play a role in this transition or not? I am not interested in rest of the theory. Thanks.

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  • 4 years ago
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    Well it partly does on the particle nature of matter, giving the phenomenon related to mass. However, wave doesnt have mass so the higgs field doesnt really play a part in the wave nature

  • 4 years ago

    Your basic premise is incorrect. Particles are represented by wavefunctions, and the way they interact sometimes seems particle-like and sometimes wave-like. But it's not that the switch between being a wave and being a particle.

    A particle takes all possible paths to get from point A to point B. In most cases, the vast majority of those possible paths cancel out, and you end up with what looks like a particle taking the least-action path directly from point A to point B.

    But, as in the two-slit experiment, a single particle takes all possible paths, including paths through both slits. (Yes, this even occurs for one particle.) The paths don't cancel out, and the particle hits a location on the screen, and multiple particles can hit different locations on the screen, with the overall result looking like wave interference.

    I suggest you get Feynman's book, "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter." It provides an easy-to-understand explanation of how this works.

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