Waves and particles?

Question

Is it possible that Particles can travel in a wave pattern, or inside a wave?

Answer 1

particles are waves. waves are particles. in quantum mechanics everything is a "wavicle" some "wavicles" are just more obvious that others. it really depends on what your going with it that makes it a particle or a wave. for example, a photon traveling through a vacuum behaves like a particle, but a photon interacting with other matter behaves like a wave. in theory every particle should behave like this to some extent, but not quite to the extent of the photon.

Answer 2

In the quantum mechanical interpretation, the probability that the particle is at a certain location is proportional to the square of the wave function amplitude at that location. So one can say that a particle travels with a wave packet.

Answer 3

a ball on the sea?

if you mean like atomic particles or smaller... i think you've been fed a story which is not up to date.

at that size they are not particles or waves.  they are something else, which just happens to behave like a particle, or like a wave depending what you're doing with it

so while electrons shooting out of a cathode ray tube may behave like a particle if you shoot them at a detector screen, they may also produce a diffraction pattern if you shoot them through a diffraction grating

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this is not really a particle travelling in a wave pattern.  

this is an electron simply being an electron.