Authors: Alan M. Kadin
A retrospective is presented of the rise and fall of Wave-Particle Duality as the central doctrine of quantum mechanics, from the viewpoint of the 2024 centennial of the matter wave. This is contrasted with the recent New Quantum Paradigm, in which there are no point particles or entangled probability waves, and classical trajectories follow directly from coherent quantum dynamics.
Comments: 12 Pages. Submitted to Foundational Questions Institute Essay Contest, June 25, 2012, http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1296
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