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No, it's quite clear in QFT that elementary entities:

- travel as unitary time-reversible non-local waves (propagate, interfere, entangle)

- interact as non-unitary time-irreversible local particle events (position, time, exchange, create, destroy)

Your interpretation of quantum mechanics will determine how you imagine the two views connect (Born Law, Many Worlds, ...)




I don't think it's correct to say that they interact as particle events, because off-shell interactions are a thing, and interacting strictly as particles would prohibit that, no?




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