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I\u2019m having trouble embedding the video, so if it doesn\u2019t show up on your browser hit \u201ccomments\u201d and it should be there. Or, just go here<\/a>. That site will also show you some actual experiments so that you can see it for yourself.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: tODD points out (comment #19) that this particular animated experiment comes from a New Agey source and uses language that confuses the science and bends it to the service of that worldview. And, yes, at PHC we did the \u201cdouble slit\u201d experiment with a laser, which does show that light behaves as both a particle and a wave. We didn\u2019t have the equipment to do the observation of one photon, which is where some controversy comes into play.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"