How can light be a particle and wave, or have both properties?

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How can light be a particle and wave, or have both properties?

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The photon is the ***particle*** associated with light (and all other electro-magnetic radiation). The probability of detecting the photon at a particular point in space is defined by a ***wave*** function.

(That’s a very complicated and unintuitive topic reduced to some words that will fit on a T-shirt.)

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