Does QM or Relativity Contradict Evidence (or Each Other)?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Patrick

Can you explain what is today’s understanding of the size of an electron.

I think you are asking the right person. I do believe that this is what @dga471 engages in his scientific work.

@swamidass

Yes, physics has settled on the answers: The electron really is a point particle of zero radius and occupies zero volume in space. With that, now go back to the beginning of inflation when the universe was radius of zero and volume of space was zero. Same physics.

Is the electron no longer a wave that occupies the whole universe?

@jongarvey

All quantum particles and fields are both waves and particles at the same time.

What that really means is that all quantum things are some entity that is not a wave and not a particle, but some entirely strange concept absent from our possible experience, which we can approach mathematically but only analogize in words - let’s call them paves, or warticles.

I’m curious to hear how @dga471 corrects our ignorant musings.