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    Is It a Wave or a Particle? It's Both, Sort Of.

    Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article toSpace.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. 

    Is it a wave, or is it a particle?

    This seems like a very simple question.

    5 evidence that light is a particle

    Waves are very distinct phenomena in our universe, as are particles. And we have different sets of mathematics to describe each of them. So, if we want to go about describing the entire universe, this appears to be a very handy classification scheme — except when it isn't.

    And it isn't in one of the most important aspects of our universe: the subatomic world. 

    When it comes to things like photons and electrons, the answer to the question "Do they behave like waves or particles?" is … yes.

    Related: Antimatter Is Both a Particle and a Wave, New Experiment Confirms

    Two worlds

    At first glance (and even at deeper glances), waves and particles are very different.

    A particle

      is light a particle when observed
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