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Light has have wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum. Very little of this spectrum can actually be seen. So it behaves like a wave in that it can be decoded in the case of visible light by your eyes and turned into a useful information by your brain. Radio waves, which are lower on the spectrum than visible light, is decoded by radios. So we know it is a wave. What we also know is that it is a particle. Electrons can be harvested into electricity by PV cells so we also know that it is particle too. There is a fair amount of study into light and the properties of light.

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