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It is not both. It is a particle. However, due to interference possibilities of amplitudes in quantum mechanics, it sometimes behaves like a wave. I am currently trying to explain this in the quantum mechanics page.--[[User:Lemonpeel|Lemonpeel]] 13:58, 8 July 2008 (EDT)
It is not both. It is a particle. However, due to interference possibilities of amplitudes in quantum mechanics, it sometimes behaves like a wave. I am currently trying to explain this in the quantum mechanics page.--[[User:Lemonpeel|Lemonpeel]] 13:58, 8 July 2008 (EDT)
Not sure how to make the first few sentences more jargon-free. There's no elementary way to explain what integer spin is--it's just one of those things. Maybe you can describe bosons as mediators of forces between matter particles. Still if someone is actually looking up photon, they should see that it's a massless particle with spin 1 somewhere on the page.--[[User:Lemonpeel|Lemonpeel]] 14:06, 8 July 2008 (EDT)