<P> Carver Mead, an American scientist and professor at Caltech, proposes that the duality can be replaced by a "wave - only" view . In his book Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism (2000), Mead purports to analyze 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: </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Albert Einstein, who, in his search for a Unified Field Theory, did not accept wave - particle duality, wrote: </P> <P> This double nature of radiation (and of material corpuscles)... has been interpreted by quantum - mechanics in an ingenious and amazingly successful fashion . This interpretation...appears to me as only a temporary way out...</P>

Who predicted that all matter can behave as waves as well as particles