Quantum Experiment Has Other Explanation
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Quantum Experiment Has Other Explanation |
| Author(s) | Eric S Reiter |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-10-13 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Quantum Experiment Has Other Explanation" is an article by Eric S Reiter published on 13 October 2019 on Beyond Mainstream, responding to a paper in Nature reporting that molecule-sized particles diffract like waves.
Reiter disputes both the experiment's interpretation and its popular reporting, objecting particularly to the “two places at once” framing of wave-particle duality. He works through how mass is actually measured — deflecting a charged beam in a magnetic field, and what assuming the charge constant smuggles into the result — to argue that the inference from measured mass to particle nature does not hold.