Quote Originally Posted by brewbuck View Post
It's not "in addition," it's the whole reason it happens. The wavefunction is not the electron. For just one particle you might convince yourself that the wavefunction is the electron, but for more than one particle it all breaks down. For instance, a system of two electrons has ONE wavefunction. You cannot write this wavefunction in terms of the sum of two wavefunctions belonging to each electron individually, it doesn't come out right. electron != wave
I didn't mean that the wave function was the electron. I would say that the wave function
describes the electron, in this case it describes it's location. However the electron does
behave as if it were a wave; cover one slit and the interference pattern disappears.
Isn't that what is meant by the "wave nature" of a particle?