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Birrabenzina t1_j0yxb9x wrote

Reply to comment by Backson in Would radiation be "pitch-shifted" (like the Doppler Effect) if it were to hit you while you were going incredibly fast, say half the speed of light? by SimianLines

No one is pretending fermions are classical, I'm remaining in the domain of classical quantum mechanics, there is no relativity, there is no spin and therefore no fermion or boson statistics. The doppler effect is a direct consequence of the wave nature of the functions that describe both light and particles (as probability waves). Plus energy and wave frequency have always been related. What quantum mechanics adds is that particles have discrete energy levels. Looking at the photoelectric effect in particular you can prove that energy is directly proportional to the frequency of light. I don't understand what wasn't clear on my explanation, in case reply to me and ask please so that I can better explain

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Backson t1_j0z5b0i wrote

Oh well, I thought you were OP and asking a question. Never mind then.

I guess we could argue about what "classical physics" means, I would say QM and GR don't belong in there and SR is mayby a little gray-area-ish, because "classical" EM (the one Maxwell describes) has special relativity tatooed on its forehead. But that's not an interesting discussion imho. It's like asking whether a calzone is a pizza or not.

I think we try to explain different things. I made a suggestion how we could discover the wave nature of electrons, which is what I think OPs question was about. I may have misunderstood what you were trying to do. It seems you start with "obviously everything is a particle and a wave" which seems a few steps ahead of the question.

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