(02-10-2016, 02:29 PM)Aion Wrote: Totally not how wave functions work... a wave is still finite...
Also, the wave-particle duality has only been actually demonstrated with photons and since we use photons to see things we can't really tell beyond that yet. We know that we don't see anything until observation but it's uncertain if that is just in terms of photons or matter in general.
From physics.bu.edu:
"Wave-particle duality is not confined to light, however. Everything exhibits wave-particle duality, everything from electrons to baseballs. The behavior of relatively large objects, like baseballs, is dominated by their particle nature; to explain the behavior of very small things like electrons, both the wave properties and particle properties have to be considered. Electrons, for example, exhibit the same kind of interference pattern as light does when they're incident on a double slit."
and, regarding all possible outcomes from whitis.techtarget.com:
"Superposition is a principle of quantum theory that describes a challenging concept about the nature and behavior of matter and forces at the sub-atomic level. The principle of superposition claims that while we do not know what the state of any object is, it is actually in all possible states simultaneously, as long as we don't look to check. It is the measurement itself that causes the object to be limited to a single possibility."
Certainty does not exist in the subatomic realm, which, no matter how much scientists want to resist the idea, suggests infinite possibilities for everything.