Why do we never observe the wave nature of particles for everyday objects such a

Question

Why do we never observe the wave nature of particles for everyday objects such as birds or bumblebees, for example?

a. Because the rest mass of a macroscopic object is so small, the de Broglie wavelength is too small to observe. The wavelength of everyday objects is many orders of magnitude less than the radius of an atom. This is far too small for us to observe.

b. Because the rest mass of a macroscopic object is so large, the de Broglie wavelength is too small to observe. The wavelength of everyday objects is many orders of magnitude less than the radius of an atom. This is far too small for us to observe.

Explanation / Answer

Because rest mass of bird animal is so large and there momentum is very large in comparision in compare to matter wave hence there wavelength is very small.

de broglie wavelength is inversely proportioinal to the momentum.

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