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As far as photons, am I wrong in the idea that there is still a debate concerning light being a wave or a particle. The reason I am asking this is because I just wrote a post suggesting that photons are particles that carry the force that is at the source of the governing dynamic of the electro/magnetic activity. If light is not a particle, and light consists of photons, does this mean that photons are waves? Can waves carry force in the same way that photons are thought to?

It's not really a debate. Light has properties of what we classically call waves and particles. We see diffraction and interference, but interactions are also localized and with quantized amounts of energy. It's not a question it being one or the other in quantum mechanics.

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