Lostgallifreyan wrote:
I've been told that particle based
models are usually best left to situations (usually atomic scale quantum
mechanical) where the wave model won't do, and I've never seen anyone suggest
that wave-based theories of electromagnetics were inadequate (or inefficient)
for scales involving obviously large numbers of particles.

Consider that man's most ancient exposure to waves was
sea/ocean waves which, incidentally, consist of H2O
molecule particles.

Seems to me that everything that physically exists must
exist as a particle.
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73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com