corpuscle, n.All

A Corpuscle (n.) need ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not be a tiny ball on a track: it may be anything that acts all at once or never, like a photon.

Corpuscle (n.) known ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in their mechanical affections as a watchmaker knows a watch would let us tell beforehand that rhubarb will purge, hemlock kill and opium make a man sleep.

The Corpuscle (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an illusion, said Schrodinger: only waves are real and the particle is where they pile up, though a pile of waves spreads out and cannot be a lasting thing.