This question is a non sense: it neither a wave nor a particle. It is a quantum field. Did you know that the wave-particle duality breaks for a simple non-relativistic quantum system of 2 particles? Why? Well, what's the meaning of a wave if its amplitude depends on r1 AND r2?
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And actually, I think that many people who know what is behind this 'duality' (including myself sometime), still try consciously or unconsciously to answer this question - even though we know it's a non sense. Theses things are difficult for our poor classical brain.
personally my understanding of qft really took off once i removed particles from my ontology
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I cannot agree more
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I recently did a presentation on this titled - The No Particle Nature of Light, which suggests by omission it's a wave, but there's a twist: It's neither.A wave is not a thing. It's what something does. Light is simply a traveling field disturbance in a medium. The (a)ether.
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