ontology of a subatomic particle

assuming one has some mental image/concept behind his understanding of the word ‘electron’, for instance - then how does one conceive of its being?

what do we think regarding the nature of a single quantum ‘particle’, or wave, or both or neither - err, what :laughing:

should we think of an electron as something nevertheless identical with itself and extant in time, temporally in spacial isolation? (perhaps they only appear to disappear and reappear, but not really) - or do they exist only and for precisely their moment (collapse, the very quintessence of a moment?)

consciousness? what, if any, role might or must it play?

are we justified in our inquiry into the nature of such things?

why? why not?

Everything is a trope.

It’s neither.

I think of quanta (as in “quantum physics”) as wills (to power). They are wills of a certain, or uncertain, strength. Uncertain; but approximate. We can only think of their strength as certain, though (vectors of a certain length). This fixing however is the work of our will to power, our interpretation.

to me a wave is the culmination of particles

think in terms of a wave on a lake or sea

at the crest of a wave and the roll over of the wave ,the wave breaks down into particles

the white foam of a falling wave

A wave of energy (a quanta) is constructed from the convergence of emission all the way down to the groundstate of the Universe.

Paradigm