>light >particle AND wave

>>8808226
>light
>can be described as both particle AND wave
ftfy

>>8808226
deBroglie bitch

>>8808243
>>8808226
Like I know it works, but I can't help but feel like it's lacking. I don't much like the concept of wave-particle duality, it's too convenient, but I don't know what else could explain it.

>every particle
>particle and wave

>>8808226

Protip: Light isn't a particle OR a wave, it just behaves like them sometimes.

>>8808226
Localized wave packets are, in essence, particles in that they have definite positions.

>>8808421
Dope.

>>8808349
Then what is light?

>>8808481

Baby don't hurt me.

>>8808481
The force carrier for the electromagnetic force, manifested by an excitation of the quantum field. Something like that.

>>8808226
>Wave
>With no medium

>>8808259
maybe it's something special. not a particle and not a wave but something we can't look behind yet.

>>8808524
Like that's what i'm thinking. Hopefully we can start to look behind it within our lifetimes.

>>8808511

Electromagnetic field permeates reality you dullard.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/08/20/qft/

Please ignore me

>>8808226

It obviously travels through a luminiferous aether.

particle and wave are classical models. light is something else entirely. neither model grasps what it is fully.

>water
>particle and wave

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73KB, 550x344px

>>8808226
>water
>particle AND wave

>>8808632
>>8809069
This is what I get for replying while in catalog.

>>8809069
underrated

>>8808226
>all things
>particles and waves
you realize everything has a wave-function right? Larger things have a more complicated form from molecular orbitals and it results in a minuscule wavelength but it works for everything.

>>8808488
>Maxwell don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more.

forget about light...

what about wifi?

>>8808226
>my general understanding of how water and marbles work must apply to all physics!!1!11!1

>>8808226
You're aware that it's not that a given photon will be both a particle and a wave, yes? And that it's different photons that act as either waves or particles?

It's the same thing with humans. Humans are both dead and alive, but there isn't a given human that is both simultaneously.

>>8809126
>Humans are both dead and alive, but there isn't a given human that is both simultaneously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

>OP
>Retard and Faggot
How is this possible?