Light as both particle and wave.

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Light as both particle and wave.

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This is awesome to any who have interest.
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/15030 ... cation=ufi

Basically they took a group of pictures of light being both a wave and a particle and the transition between a plasmonic near-field pattern. Here is articles that is easier to understand. http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-ever ... h-a-parti/

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Excubis wrote: Basically they took a group of pictures of light being both a wave and a particle and the transition between a plasmonic near-field pattern.
A photon is a wavicle. A localized chirp. Then again, so are the constituents of matter as well.
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