It bugs me that some of my best writing is on Facebook where only a few friends will see it. So let me elevate this comment, which was in response to my friend Charlie. He started out with this question, regarding the particle/wave duality of light:
You can measure a wave and you can measure a particle - how can something be both?
My reply:
You just have to squint at it at the right angle.
It's like one of those pictures that is a duck that turns into a rabbit if you look at it long enough. What is it a picture of? A duck? No, it's a rabbit. A rabbit? No, it's a duck.
A duckrabbit? Now you're getting closer...
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My 4yo says it looks like a rabbit that looks like a duck. My 2yo says it's a duck, and when I tried to point out how it looks like a rabbit, and asked him if he saw the rabbit, he said "I can't find it!"