[FreedomNeocon]

I would suspect they are just observing some lesser understood quantum mechanic, and mis-characterizing it.

I never was totally comfortable with the whole "Light is both a wave and a particle" explanation. Seemed like a similar cop-out to the whole dark matter idea when calculating the mass of the universe, or the entire understanding of 'strong' and 'weak' nuclear forces.

[ctdonath2]

I never was totally comfortable with the whole "Light is both a wave and a particle" explanation.

It's not a cop-out.

It's that the universe fundamentally operates in ways a lot different that our extremely narrow perceptions indicate.

It's that "waves" and "particles" are in fact the same thing, just showing certain facets more promenantly than others (kinda like the outside of your head looks a lot different than the inside).

[spinestein]

[I never was totally comfortable with the whole "Light is both a wave and a particle" explanation. Seemed like a similar cop-out to the whole dark matter idea when calculating the mass of the universe, or the entire understanding of 'strong' and 'weak' nuclear forces.]



Nobody should be satisfied with it. I think it's just a useful analogy physics teachers have come up with to try to help students solve physics equations. As far as I can tell, the analogy breaks down as a meaningful way of intuitively understanding just what's going on with the fundamental pieces of the universe. NOBODY intuitively understands that yet.

[RightWingAtheist]

I never was totally comfortable with the whole "Light is both a wave and a particle" explanation.

Once you understand relativity, it makes perfect sense.