“This means that the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of the water molecule are delocalized and therefore simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions in the channel at the same time,” lead study author Alexander Kolesnikov, of ORNL’s Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, said in news release. “It’s one of those phenomena that only occur in quantum mechanics and has no parallel in our everyday experience.”
Translation: this can only happen because the particles are, in fact, simply waves. There is no wave-particle duality, there are only waves that sometimes appear to us to behave as particles. What the scientists are describing is two symmetrically opposite standing waves superimposed on each other.
Well I say, there are only particles which sometimes appear to us to behave as waves! How about that!
Thanks, your explanation makes sense.