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One thing that's always bothered me about modern physics is that they don't adhere to the scientific method in the interpretation of the most basic, repeatable experiments. The scientific method is supposed to be you observe something, you hypothesize (guess) what's going on, then you conduct experiments to try to disprove the guess. Experiments don't ever prove the guess correct, and competing experiments that conflict with multiple guesses rule out all the guesses. So the double-slit and single-slit experiments prove that light is NEITHER a particle (in the sense scientists use the term) NOR a wave. One experiment rules out one, the other experiment rules out the other. Instead of concluding that both guesses were wrong because they were contradicted by evidence, scientists decided both experiments proved contradictory theories correct and that light is a wave AND a particle. The scientifically rigorous explanation is that light is NEITHER.