Discovery has the article Photo First: Light Captured as Both Particle and Wave. The scientists at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have made this cartoon video to drive other scientists batty.

Reminds me of my first job at Sylvania. I managed to create a lab setup to measure two things at the same time to prove to myself that both unexplained conditions were simultaneous. I still had no explanation, though.

As for this situation, I have invented this “explanation”. Under some circumstances the wave model or reality explains how light behaves. Under other circumstances the particle model of reality explains how light behaves. Models are simplifications of reality that are good for explaining behavior. The simplification is necessary because we don’t have words to explain or we can’t handle the complex math of reality. In this situation, we still haven’t come up with the words to explain what light really is without making simplified models of some behavior of light. (Of course, it may be possible that scientists have come up with the explanation of what light really is, but I just have not heard of it, yet.)

Terry Steiner can correct me because I know that I must be wrong. Or maybe Llanda Richardson wants to tackle this.