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What theory of light is the photon more consistent with the wave theory or the particle theory?

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What theory of light is the photon more consistent with the wave theory or the particle theory?

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To be exact, light is _in_consistent with both of them. The theories only apply on certain energy/time/number of photons scales. wave-like properties like refraction cannot be described by a pure corpuscular model and for example the photo-electric effect cannot be described by wave-mechanics. The only theory consistent with all features of light we know about is quantum mechanics, which is _not_, as populary believed, a mixture of wave-like and particle-like properties but rather something we cannot grasp at the moment, which turns out to be wave-like or particle-like in certain limiting cases, but in general something very different from both. To answer your question: this turns out to be sort of a 50/50 accuracy trade-off.

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