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I have watched a lot of videos about quantum theory/mechanics and other and when they speak, say, about double slit experiment they say that 'if you shoot an electron...'. Then I read somewhere that photon exhibits w-p duality. And on some other video the narrator said that all elementary particles can behave as a wave and a particle. So if it is true, it means that you can actually shoot a neutron or a proton or a photon in the double slit experiment and it will be the same?

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  • Related: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/46237/50583 – ACuriousMind Jul 18 '17 at 12:17
  • As the link above probably explains, EVERYTHING exhibits wave-particle duality. It's just that it is unnoticeable on human scales. – Brad S Jul 18 '17 at 13:19
  • Getting there with large molecules https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/physicists-smash-record-for-wave-particle-duality-462c39db8e7b but this is a gee-whiz kinda blog. –  Jul 18 '17 at 13:40
  • Actually we should stop using the terminology wave-particle duality at once. There is no such thing. There is quantum mechanics (or QFT, or whatever else you want) and that's it. – gented Jul 18 '17 at 13:59
  • The idea of wave-particle duality is a way for us to think about QM in a classical context – Lewis Miller Jul 18 '17 at 15:30

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