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In a sense the answer to your question is "yes."

What quantum mechanics actually tells us is that at the fundamental level objects of very small mass sometimes behave as particles and sometimes behave as waves. Trying to determine whether they're "really" one or the other is like trying to distinguish between six and half a dozen.

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