Light is a wave and light is a particle
It does not matter
If a particle’s partiality
parts with the classical concept
Of duality.
A wave can be a particle
And matter, or matter not.
The behaviour of the quantum particle
Is unpredictable in the extreme
So firing particles through a mountain
Isn’t all that it may seem.
Like position and momentum,
Or like photons and matter,
Waving to a particle
Leaves light in tatters.
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle met Schrödinger’s cat
What matters is the wave
And that is that - flat.
Particle duality, a scratchy old cat,
Resolve matters amicably on the particle-mat
The presence of consciousness lightens up the room
As wave turns to particle and disappears too soon;
Looking at the stars and waving at the past
I think maybe, just maybe, this magic will last.