How can light be a particle and wave, or have both properties?
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A simpler way to explain would be that **light is what light is**. It behaves the way it does.
The first experiments we did showed us that it could act as a particle. Later we did experiments that showed us it could act as a wave. We thought light was a certain way, but it turned out differently.
Yes, it has the properties of a wave and of a particle. This isn’t a problem or a paradox, it’s just strange. All of the math and evidence points towards this being perfectly reasonable.
A lot of your ideas about the world are based on assumption. But Mother Nature might not find something like that as strange.
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