In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.

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Light behaves like both a wave and a particle.

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This was all based on a simple insight: The behavior of the electron was dictated by the wave function rather than particle physics.

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By everything, what I mean is every possible configuration of that particle (wave) and the surround matter is expressed, perhaps simultaneously, perhaps in series.

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The wavefunction describes just how wave-like a particle actually is.

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This shows that light is actually neither just a particle nor just a wave, but rather both simultaneously.

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According to quantum theory, all particles are wave-like (and all waves particle-like).

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What is interesting about their wave form is that they only collapse into a particle when being observed.

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As a simplified model, Dr Page imagines a wave function for a whole universe (for these purposes, a universe can be considered as a single particle), from which two possible versions might be born.

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