article_snippet: The experiment has been one of the most frustrating paradoxes of modern science - that light exists both as a wave and particle at the same time but can never be seen in both states simultaneously.
article_snippet: Albert Einstein was the first person to describe this apparent dual state of light in 1905 in an attempt to explain some of the apparently contradictory behaviour it displays.
article_snippet: Yet when scientists attempt to observe both states, it has only ever been able to see light behave as photon particle or as an electromagnetic wave.
article_snippet: The work shows that Albert Einstein was right when Albert Einstein proposed that electromagnetic radiation could behave as both a wave and a particle at the same time.
highlights_snippet: Albert Einstein was first to describe light as being both a wave and particle .
  