DON’T THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT LIGHT WILL LOSE ITS FASCINATION FOR MANKIND NOW THAT WE’VE CONQUERED ITS COYNESS – ITS FLIRTATIOUS NATURE OF BEING NOW HERE, NOW THERE, BUT NEVER PINPOINT-ABLE !!

We tried and tried: first a wiggly wave, then a tenacious dot! Such was the nature of our elusive beam of light, but now we’ve got it! Or, have we?

A photo may be worth a thousand words but we need several million words to interpret the still inexplicable.
■ Here’s the first photograph ever taken (by Fabrizio Carbone/EPFL) of light as simultaneously both a particle and a wave.