Question: how Is light a wave or a particle?

Asked by leelee1997 to Bev, Posty, Edward, Kate, Nathan on 21 Jun 2011.

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  1. Photo: Kate PattersonKate Patterson
    answered on 21 Jun 2011:

    Hi leelee1997

    I have always thought of light as a wave but it seems this has been a topic of hot debate for hundreds of years! This website goes into great detail:

    http://spectroscopyonline.findanalytichem.com/spectroscopy/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=337288

    But basically light is a little unique in that it obeys the physical laws of both particles and waves.

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