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That is not the current understanding of quantum mechanics, as far as I know. Wave/particle dualism says that different experiments can either view light as a wave or a particle (never both) and that speaking about the nature of light when an experiment is not being performed is non-scientific by definition.

Importantly, light very much behaves like a conventional wave in many real experiments - the interferometer experiment being one of the oldest and most well known. It is not a probability wave in that case, but an actual physical wave (now known to be an oscillation in the electro magnetic field, but long assumed to be a mechanical wave in the luminiferous aether).

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