Photon wave

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Your two scenarios are incompatible with each other. QM vs classical.

Surely this is a case of QT 'point like' and classical 'volume'.

Put a (point like) stone on a piece of string and drop it in a pool of water, classicist observe the wave that expands in all directions away from the stone, but Quantum theorist continue to observe the stone and see that when the stone is removed the water fills the space previously occupied by the stone and therefore quantum theorist observe ‘wave collapse’. That is to say the views of QT and classicist are not incompatible; both are correct but different observations of the same photon wave action. The implication being that the observer cannot observe both the stationary point wave action and the moving wave action at the same time.