Light: Wave or particle?
We
have now arrived at a dilemma. We don’t know exactly what Light
is, or what the nature of Light is. We can explain the phenomenons
of Light sometimes with the wave theory, sometimes with the quantum
theory, and in some cases, such as Light propagation, both theories
are valid. But if this is so, what is Light?
What happens is that Light behaviour is like a wave for it’s propagation meanwhile
it has a particle character when it interacts with the matter.
The
question of whether Light is a wave or a particle is still being
debated.
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