A theory developed by Paul Dirac in 1927 that explains the apparent paradox of wave/particle duality, by identifying a wave with the superposition of an indefinite number of particles. For example, if a wave is then interpreted as showing the probability of the location of a particle, then a "collapse" of the wave through measurement yields a particle sometimes found "here" and sometimes "there."
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