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What is light? Is it a wave or a particle?
Light behaves like a continuous wave, but it also has the properties of a particle. So which is it? Dr Matt Middleton from Southampton University, UK, uses the sea as a metaphor to explain how it is, in fact, both.
(Photo: Glowing light bulb, Credit: Getty Images)
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