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strange way, in the two compartments at the same time. It shows in this case a behaviour fundamentally different from that of a 'particle'. A particle cannot be at two places at the same time. The new aspect of the atom revealed in the third experiment is called the 'wave aspect'. A wave fills all available space. Totally unlike large objects objects on the atomic scale show a dual aspect, a particle aspect and a wave aspect. The two aspects which are totally contradictory in every day experience are complimentary at the level of atoms.
Why so? Because nature is so consituated that experiments which demonstrate the particle aspect and those which demostrate the wave aspect are mutually incompatible. We can have only the one set up or the other, and never the two can be combined or built together into some super apparatus to demonstrate both the aspects at the same time. What is that makes these experiments mutually incompatible? It arises from the far-reaching and totally unexpected, fact that an act of observation even an ideal observation supposed to be made with 'perfect' instruments is inevitably accompanied by a certain minimum disturbance. The disturbance cannot be eliminated, cannot be analysed or allowed for. It is inherent in the nature of things. It disturbs in an unpredictable way, the state of system under observation. We cannot even think of an experiment- a thought experiment, as it is called- that can be made free of the concomitant minimum uncertainity. According to syādvāda logic this fact is placed positively that the reality has inherent infinite attributes. No one is able to observe at a time or speak at a time all the attributes of really existing thing. One can only perceive or speak any one attribute at a time with particular view point not denying the remaining attributes. Observer's view point is important. Linguistic terminology always follow it.
The physical example of the atom and the box described
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