Mitch ATWUNFORTRUATZEM Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 As far as photons, am I wrong in the idea that there is still a debate concerning light being a wave or a particle. The reason I am asking this is because I just wrote a post suggesting that photons are particles that carry the force that is at the source of the governing dynamic of the electro/magnetic activity. If light is not a particle, and light consists of photons, does this mean that photons are waves? Can waves carry force in the same way that photons are thought to?
swansont Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 It's not really a debate. Light has properties of what we classically call waves and particles. We see diffraction and interference, but interactions are also localized and with quantized amounts of energy. It's not a question it being one or the other in quantum mechanics.
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