
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Uncertainty of Light
Everything moves according to wave equations. It's just that the wavelength for things depends on how much energy they have. For most things like me or you or cantaloupe, the wavelength of its quantum mechanical wave function is tiny. The wave effects of you and your son walking down the hallway and interfering with each other are basically negligible. But on the scale of particles, these wave functions interfere with each other.
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