We are not alone – scientists starting to consider wave-only view of quantum mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality#Wave-only_view
Wave-only view
At least one scientist proposes that the duality can be replaced by a
“wave-only” view. Carver Mead’s Collective Electrodynamics:
Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism (2000) analyzes the behavior
of electrons and photons purely in terms of electron wave functions,
and attributes the apparent particle-like behavior to quantization
effects and eigenstates. According to reviewer David Haddon:[20]
Mead has cut the Gordian knot of quantum complementarity. He claims
that atoms, with their neutrons, protons, and electrons, are not
particles at all but pure waves of matter. Mead cites as the gross
evidence of the exclusively wave nature of both light and matter the
discovery between 1933 and 1996 of ten examples of pure wave phenomena,
including the ubiquitous laser of CD players, the self-propagating
electrical currents of superconductors, and the Bose–Einstein condensate
of atoms.
The many-worlds interpretation (MWI)
is sometimes presented as a waves-only theory, including by its
originator, Hugh Everett who referred
to MWI as “the wave interpretation”[21].
‘Three Wave Hypothesis’ of R. Horodecki
relates the particle to wave [22].
[23].
The hypothesis implies that a massive particle is an intrinsically
spatially as well as temporary extended wave phenomenon by a nonlinear
law. According to M. I. Sanduk
this hypothesis is related to a hypothetical bevel gear model [24].
Then both concepts of particle and wave may be attributed to an
observation problem of the gear [25].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_Mead