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Old October 24th 17, 07:57 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 2:46:45 PM UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:29:14 +0300, Paul Schlyter
wrote:

OK, let's return to light. You said it was neither particles nor
waves, yet you want to call it particles. Why?


If you're going to use a plain English word, "particles" is best for
light, since it's make up of photons, which the word fairly reasonably
describes. But if you want to really understand things, you need to
work with the mathematics of QM.


This is all thumbsucking, the dark energy/matter stuff didn't work out so everyone is running home to mama (qm/relativity) but unfortunately destroying the last great astronomical spectacle in the process, in this case the supernova.