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	* Something there is that rebels against such complex solutions.		* Something there is that rebels against such complex solutions.
	* Nothing seems to be lost if we regard the wave equations as an information probe that is search for a place to deposit a quantum of energy which just disappears at one point in spacetime are reappears at another.		* Nothing seems to be lost if we regard the wave equations as an information probe that is search for a place to deposit a quantum of energy which just disappears at one point in spacetime are reappears at another.
−	* In other words, energy is preserved even though some of it is transit and not in existence at any one point in space-time.	+	* In other words, energy is preserved even though some of it is in-transit and not in existence at any one point in space-time.
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Full Title or Meme

The Particle Model was created for quantum mechanics to extended the physics of Newton's Planets to sub-atomic phenomenon.

That model is treated here as though it were a myth. Extraordinarily helpful perhaps, but, all the same, just a myth.

Context

Richard Feynman was ambivalent about the reality of either waves or particles, sometime talking about a particle being at a place at a time. The following though is what he told his students at Cal Tech.

Newton thought that light was made up of particles, but then it was discovered that it behaves like a wave. Later, however (in the beginning of the twentieth century), it was found that light did indeed sometimes behave like a particle. Historically, the electron, for example, was thought to behave like a particle, and then it was found that in many respects it behaved like a wave. So it really behaves like neither. Now we have given up. We say: “It is like neither.”^[1]

Solution

• The results from using the particle and wave models (as appropriate) gives results of spectacular, consistent accuracy.
• If something seems to good to be true, it typically is to good to be true.
• Something there is that rebels against such complex solutions.
• Nothing seems to be lost if we regard the wave equations as an information probe that is search for a place to deposit a quantum of energy which just disappears at one point in spacetime are reappears at another.
• In other words, energy is preserved even though some of it is in-transit and not in existence at any one point in space-time.

References

1. ↑ Richard Feynman Feynman Lectures III no 1 Cal Tech https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_01.html