Not really sure this makes sense? We know exactly why light behaves the way it does- the emergent properties of a simpler system. It's weird that particles aren

Not really sure this makes sense? We know exactly why light behaves the way it does- the emergent properties of a simpler system. It's weird that particles aren't like this so far! I think your critique here is leveled at QFT (which is fair, it's a practical theory with plenty of compromises), but the "why the hell are particles" issue holds in practically every flavor of QM