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« on: May 31, 2008, 01:33:22 PM »
I am of the opinion that it travels as a particle.  After all, waves cannot travel through voids.
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 02:36:39 PM »
It travels as a wavy particle. Problem solved.
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 03:36:52 PM »
It might be an oddly shaped particle, I don't know, I've never seen a photon.
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 05:41:34 PM »
I declare a....PARADOX!!!!!!!! "Conflict Resolved"
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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 01:32:21 AM »
Dr. Smith declares photon therefore it must be so
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 03:34:41 AM »
Is this true:
Particle: beam of light
Wave:concentrated light and heat

Or is it the other way around
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 09:25:12 AM »
Particles have charge and mass.  Waves interfere and diffract.  Light does both at different times so its a beast. 
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 10:27:48 AM »
It's called the quantum theory of light, right? It's both. It's behaves as two intersecting electromagnetic waves, but has mass like a particle.

So the answer is neither: it's a photon.

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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2011, 10:37:37 AM »
Wave-Particle Duality is when an electron exhibits both wave and particle properties.  The Quantum Theory of Light deals with the quantization of light energy meaning energies of light are discrete. 

This is actually helping me study for my Modern Physics final I have to take at 3.
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« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2011, 10:34:44 PM »
Light is a particle because 4 and 1/2 pounds of sunlight strike the earth each day.
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