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Wave-Particle Duality www.wave-particle.net Wave-particle duality is, according to Richard Feynman, the central mystery of quantum mechanics. What follows is a fresh approach to photon physics showing that duality is a consequence of the photon having a kinetic identity and a potential identity. No metaphysics proposed here; no multi-dimensions; no new particles; no fields that can’t be detected or measured. Just a new look at kinetic energy and how radiation transports it. I hope you find it interesting… Kinetic Energy and Wave-Particle Paul A. Klevgard, Ph.D. Sandia National Laboratory, Ret. pklevgard@gmail.com 1.0 Abstract We think of kinetic energy (KE) as a quantity possessed by rest mass in motion. But somehow electromagnetic (EM) radiation transports KE across space without any rest mass. In addition, a single photon passing through a double slit diffracts into multiple paths in space without affecting its KE. This is hard to explain. Most