Don’t confuse scientific models with truth or reality.
Quantum mechanics, relativity, Newtonian and Aristotilian dynamics are all models that, in certain situations, do a good job of predicting reality. Light is not a probabilistic model any more than it is a particle or a wave. It is light and every way we currently have of understanding is an inperfect model—even if we don’t understand just how it’s imperfect yet. If the history of science has taught us anything, it’s that.
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Don’t confuse scientific models with truth or reality.
Quantum mechanics, relativity, Newtonian and Aristotilian dynamics are all models that, in certain situations, do a good job of predicting reality. Light is not a probabilistic model any more than it is a particle or a wave. It is light and every way we currently have of understanding is an inperfect model—even if we don’t understand just how it’s imperfect yet. If the history of science has taught us anything, it’s that.