Structures and Properties of Matter #1-Particles and Waves in a Nutshell

Question 1

What were matter (particles) and energy (waves) once considered to be?

Answer 1

separate and unrelated entities

Question 2

What do scientists now realize?

Answer 2

there to be a
wave-particle duality for both
matter and energy

Question 3

What does this duality mean?

Answer 3

matter can behave like both particles and waves AND energy can behave like both particles and waves