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n element is an essential or irreducible constituent component of a composite entity. Such fundament reductions can be extremely diminutive to the point of abstraction. In the case of light energy, these indispensable elements are operative at the level of the atomic and subatomic scales, or quantum mechanics. Perhaps the most important elemental property used to describe light is its dual particle-like and wave-like behavior, and consequent interactions with matter in space.
“If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.” - Murray Gell-Mann
