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Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Interference Pattern of Light

Light is a particle that's acting like a wave as if it was in a huge stream of other particles. Like every kind of matter, how it moves is governed by mathematics of wave equations. Every particle carries with it some quantum mechanical wave that determines where it goes. And this blew everybody's mind.

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