How is light both a wave and a particle

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Or is that just currently the best explanation for something that we can’t necessarily comprehend yet?

Maybe it’s like those visualizations of 4d shapes where even the best explanations fall a little short of really explaining what is happening.

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It falls into a paradox based on observation. If you measure it in one way it shows it acts as a wave (diffraction, polarization, etc.). However, if you measure other traits, such as energy transmitted, that is only currently explainable as a particle, mainly photons. This has become one of the greatest debates in physics with Nobel Prizes being given for furthering our understanding.

[A great video about the topic by an Oxford astrophysicist .](https://youtu.be/HAeDBLUT9JA)

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