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Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Uncomfortable Truth About Light

It's like you're throwing boxes full of cats that are either dead or alive. It's different if you take a peek inside the box before it gets there. And no cats were harmed in the making of this podcast. Now feeling urged to point out that we know that light is a particle and then it comes in these little discrete packets. We call them photons. But we also know that like everything else, light is determined by how its wave function moves. Every particle and every object has this wave function and how it moves is controlled by wave equations. People don't really know which one it is or people are still confused about that. I think it's totally reasonable to say it's

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