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Loading contentThe finding that light and matter each behave as both waves and particles depending on how they are observed — light as photons in the photoelectric effect, electrons as interfering waves in a double slit. It reconciled centuries of debate about the nature of light and underlies how detectors count the photons that carry astronomy's information.
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