Navigating the network and the Internet ocean, I found a blog called Chez Orefëa . In it, I read a post which appears quite ingenious Universal Declaration on the Rights of Physicians. Among the rights, the number nine: "Any individual has the right to be considered as a wave" . This is based on a principle of quantum mechanics. Matter can be described as a set of particles, corpuscles or balls, or as waves. Albert Einstein, who in 1905 explained the photoelectric effect (the emission of electrons from a material when illuminated by electromagnetic radiation . That is, a metal plate is illuminated with visible or ultraviolet light, and observed how some electrons jump or follow from the plate by generating an electrical current. This experiment raised concerns with the concept of light that was in the early twentieth century. At those times was considered a wave. While performing this experiment, however, seemed to behave as a set of particles) based on wave-particle duality. That's why, when we study light in school, we define it as something formed by particles, photons , traveling in a straight line at high speed (300.000Km / s) and a wave.
Why in our daily lives we do not observe this duality? Because the wavelength of the particles is inversely proportional to the size of these. Thus, as the objects we observe in our daily life are quite large, their wavelengths are sensitive. On the other hand, acceptable lengths waves behave as infinitely small particles. For now, physicists / as only been able to observe both types of behavior in objects very, very small as photons or electrons.
But ultimately, they know the particles, which have every right to be considered a ladies waves, small, tiny, imperceptible, but waves.
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