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Proof that light is a particle and not a wave?
Yes, but also both. (a simple example follows)
Think of it like you being at work or home. If I check your house, either you're there, or you aren't. If you're there, you're at home, simple. If not at home, you're at work.
Same with your work: either you're there when I check - or you aren't, therefore at home.
But before I check either location (it's understood that you are only in 1 of those 2 places), you are effectively in both places, and neither place, all at once.
And if I work from home?
Checkmate physicists
Then you are either at work or at home. But until I check, you are out getting tacos.
What if all particles are waves. They just temporarily form loops that we consider to have particle behaviour when observed on a larger scale.
Great, Brian Greene's been drinking again.