As I was going to sleep, I see two different light beams going through my window, iluminating two different spots of my bedroom but yet both going through my window at the same time constantly, how does that work? Are they in the same place at the same time? Or are they so fast that I can’t notice they are actually taking turns to come in?
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A photon is not a particle, it is a bundle of energy. We talk about photons as particles because they have an area within which the energy is found. However, there is nothing physical about the area or the energy. So two photons can overlap and be in the same place at the same time.
Light is matter, but also light is not matter. That’s not just ELI5, [it’s physics](https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/wave-particle_duality.htm#:~:text=In%20physics%20and%20chemistry%2C%20wave,both%20waves%20and%20of%20particles.&text=The%20idea%20of%20duality%20is,Christiaan%20Huygens%20and%20Isaac%20Newton).
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