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When the 'photon' is emitted, it would reason that the result of the energy fluctuation that creates 'it' rather is created as an energy wave, which when measured by us or a surface, it 'becomes' as a particle.

If my reasoning is right, the question then becomes why, or how, this wave appears as a corpuscular disturbance..

The more you know, the more complicated it will get, so I can see why knowing so little makes these questions easy for me to ask. I'm curious to see who is patient enough to educate a naiive question with a good natured 'schooling'.

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Unfortunately, in quantum mechanics "ordinary" reasoning does not get you anywhere.

The photon, like any other particle, is neither a particle nor a wave; it is an entity that we can only describe mathematically. It's only when we observe it that it shows up as either particle or wave.

Or senses, and hence our logic, evolved to make sense of the real world around us. That works very well when you are trying to find food or dodge a lion. In other words, it works for objects that have a size similar to ourself, and that move at speeds that are not superfast. Our logic did not evolve to cope with extremely small objects, nor with extremely massive or very fast moving ones, and so it leads us astray when we are thinking about such situations.

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