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Letter: A word for it?

Published 20 March 2013

From Mike Jaket

It struck me that discussions of wave-particle duality lack a single word for the weird nature of photons or electrons before they are induced to reveal themselves as particle or wave upon measurement (5 January, p 36).

• The “wavicle” is catching on.

Upper Coomera, Queensland, Australia

Issue no. 2909 published 23 March 2013

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