Hive account@bramlyapple I think you got this! Indeed Nature does not have to conform to our limited intuitions. We should perhaps think of an electron as sort-of-a localised wave packet that resembles both a wave and a particle, and hence has particle-like as well as wave-like behaviours. Indeed, the de Broglie formula tells us how to relate the momentum of a particle and its wavelength, so a wave description and a particle description are not mutually exclusive at all.