Can someone tell me, (I am not a physicist, or scientific generally speaking) is the current argument of ‘Light, is it particle or wave?’ still hotly disputed between scientific folk or has the fact that it is both (as in exhibits both characteristics) become the accepted Status Quo and the question died away?
(Please no-one tell me long reasons as to why they can proove it’s Particle and NOT wave or vice versa as what little I do know stretches to the knowledge that NO-ONE has ever conslusively proved it is one, whilst at eh same time definately not the other, I just want to limit answers to the point)
Many Thanks, Joe
It’s both a particle and a wave, has been since for getting on 80 years now since the dawn of quantum physics.
If you read “Science Matters” by Robert Hazen, he claims otherwise. Basically his argument is that it is neither a particle, wave or both, but something that we just cannot classify yet.
For the purposes of experiments, the process and results need to be interpreted as if the thing is either a particle or a wave, in order for anything to make sense.
However, that is mostly a matter of the limitations of our ability to conceptualize the quantum world.
thats what i would say. particle or wave are just words we like to slap on it to have an easier time thinking about it.
the suckers are just too tricky 
for example a photon has momentum, which in regular physics is mass times velocity, only a photon does not have mass
the situation isn’t any better with electrons