If light is made up of photons, where do the waves fit in?

Subject: If light is made up of photons, where do the waves fit in?

Date: Sun Mar 19 11:55:47 2000
Posted by gibran shah
Grade level: undergrad School: u of c
City: cslgary State/Province: alberta Country: canada
Area of science: Physics
ID: 953488547.Ph

Message:


If light is made up of irreduceable packets of energy called photons, 
where do waves fit into the picture? Is each photon a wave? Does each 
photon consist of a certain number of waves? Are the wave and photon 
models of light mutually exclusive such that we don't know which one is a 
better depiction of the phenomanon?

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