Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:54:30 +1300, greg wrote: > >>> Until DeBroglie formulated >>> its hypothesis of dual nature of matter (and light): wave and particle >>> at the same time. >> Really it's neither waves nor particles, but something else for which >> there isn't a good word in everyday English. Physicists seem to have got >> around that by redefining the word "particle" to mean that new thing. > > I like the term "wavical" to describe that. We're all made of wavicals, > it's just that the wave-like fuzziness is usually too small to notice.
It's usually spelled _wavicle_, by the way. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis I woke up this morning / You were the first thing on my mind -- India Arie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
