The document discusses the wave-particle duality of light. It describes how in the 17th century, Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens proposed different theories for the nature of light - with Newton believing light consisted of particles and Huygens believing it was waves. Later experiments by Thomas Young and James Clerk Maxwell provided evidence that light exhibits wave properties through interference and diffraction. Max Planck and Albert Einstein later showed light also behaves as quantized packets of energy called photons, exhibiting particle-like properties. Modern understanding is that light has both wave-like and particle-like properties, and is best described by the photon model and quantum mechanics and its wave-particle duality.