Can you explain how light acts like a particle and a wave too?

Question

thanks! :) ... any interesting experiments that come to mind? :)

Answer 1

can you give me one more day to answer you ?

Answer 2

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba... Its is a duality this site will give you everything you need to know.

Answer 3

To answer that question you have to go into the world of the very small (quantum mechanics). In that realm there is no difference between a particle and a wave. It is only when we try to determine it's state in the regular world we're used to that it becomes a wave OR a particle.

Why does it work that way? Your guess is as good as any particle physicist at this point. It simply IS that way.

BTW it isn't that groups of photons act as waves and individuals don't. An individual photon IS a wave.

Answer 4

it is just like water, water can act as waves, yet it is millions of tyni particles called atoms, same with ligt and other electromagnetics, they are waves because like water particles clump and get far to make waves

Answer 5

light reflects, refracts and diffracts which are wave properties.

it also can dissociate electrons from certain metals (depending on its wave frequency), which implies particle behaviour.