What name is given to a discrete packet of light?

Question

What name is given to a discrete packet of light?

Answer 1

A wave packet?

Answer 2

Photon is the typical description, being composed of qualities of a wave and particle although it's not a genuine particle in the sense of having mass and structure.

[For a discussion of a unified theory, reference E. Sternglass, Before the Big Bang, 1997; for more detail his paper "Relatavistic Electron-Pair Systems and the Structure of Neutral Mesons"; Physical Review, 1961]

Since subatomic structures are not evaluated by the Copenhagen School of quantum mechanics it will be unable to describe a photon, whereas Sternglass' insight does explain how a photon can exhibit the properties of a "particle" from an electromagnetic relativistic source.

Answer 3

photon