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I dare you to calculate the double slit experiment on the assumption light is a particle.

• Koshkin 7y ago
  But electrons, being particles, exhibit the same behavior.
  • aeternum 7y ago
    This is looking at the problem in the wrong way. Quantized fields are the fundamental building blocks of our reality. Everything else builds from that. The entire concept of a particle is a useful but flawed model, similar to newtonian gravity.
    • Koshkin 7y ago
      > useful Indeed - non-relativistic quantum mechanics does explain the double-slit experiment and does not use the notion of a field.
• maxnoe 7y ago
  The assumption is wrong, plain and simple. Nothing behaves like the classical concept of particle or wave. There are edge cases where this is the case, and this is the reason the classical theories were and are still successful. And then there are cases where this breaks down catastrophically, like the double slit experiment. Which are the very reason we had to look for new theories. In this case, it is Quantumelectrodynamics, which perfectly explains the double slit and everything else concerning electromagnetic force. It is the most precise theory in any scientific field, with theoretical predictions matching measurements to 13 significant digits. Feynman, Schwinger and Tomanago got the Nobel in 1965 for this.