Light can be described as both a wave and a particle. Early theories described light as a stream of particles or corpuscles (Lucretius, Newton) or as waves (Huygens). Young's experiments in the early 1800s supported the wave theory of light. Maxwell's equations in the 1860s showed that light is an electromagnetic wave. The photoelectric effect and Planck's quantum hypothesis provided evidence that light also behaves as discrete packets of energy called photons. Today, light is best described by quantum electrodynamics, which incorporates both wave and particle properties.