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Light has both wave and particle properties
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Travels like a wave
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Interacts with matter like a particle: “photon”
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Full
explanation involves quantum mechanics
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For
most cases we can just choose the right
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“model”
from the above two choices
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Photons, unlike particles in other kinds of
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“radiation,”
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are particles of “pure
energy”
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