Scientists take the first ever photograph of light as both a wave and a particle

[longship]

5. Is it a floor wax, or a dessert topping?

It's both! Or neither.

That's the puzzle of Quantum Field Theory. But the deal is... It is neither, and from our perspective, both. But that's just the thing, nobody required the universe to abide by people's preconceived conceptions. It is just different.

Maybe J. B. S. Haldane

said it best:

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Meanwhile utter kooks like Deepak Chopra feel free to just make shit up because people do not feel comfortable in not understanding these things. It is confusing, therefore that's license for me to commit fraud. After all, nobody understands this shit. Nope, Deepak, that ain't the way physics works. You don't get to make shit up.

(I'd post a clip for Shimmer floor wax here, but there are no YouTube clips of it, apparently.)