The possibility that a single object could be both a particle and a wave led to many strange and counterintuitive conclusions and was inconceivable before the paradigm shift we now call quantum mechanics. The answer to the question of whether light is made up of particles or waves turns out to be none of the above, and both of the above, at the same time. From the vantage point of the old thinking, a new paradigm can seem ridiculous and utterly absurd. It reminds me of when Bob Dylan sings, “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.” To make sense of it, you have to forget something about what you
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