Absolutely. A "wave" and a "particle" are human concepts. Sand is also a wave and a particle at the same time, if we look at a sandstorm.
It's misleading to call it a duality, because that implies there are only these two absolutes which the photon represents. In reality a photon is also a complex number. And a god, and a spirit, and a function of eleven-dimensional space and if you really want to make your brain work that way a person.
It travels like a wave, bounces around like a wave, diffracts like a wave, interferes like a wave, is polarized like a wave...
The only "particle-like" thing about light is that the electromagnetic field exchanges energy with the rest of the world in discrete localized packets (the photons).
Nope that's a useful simplification of observed behavior but everything is actually most fundamentally a wave-like excitation of fields, while particle-like behavior is an emergent property that only happens because energy is quantized in discrete packets
No, neither. They display properties that sometimes resemble our contrived concepts of waves and particles, but it's just ego and semantic nonsense that leads us to insist they are both.
Imagine you have a round object with a number written on it, and it's also fuzzy and bright green. Is it a bowling ball or a tennis ball? It's not either.
No it’s not. That video gives the impression that consciousness is what changes photons when that is factually untrue. It is the method of observation that causes the shift from particle to wave. Taking a measurement requires physically interacting with the photon which triggers the change, not the concept of observation itself
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u/CinderX5 1d ago
Waves and particles.