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(5,402 posts)And your grasp of the scientific method seems questionable at best.
With physics, people reject, modify or accept the models based on how well they predict outcomes of experiments and other observable data. There isn't a scientist worth his or her weight that would say the model is what is actually occurring. As if an electron were a itty-bitty BB or a light field actually behaved like water. At the nano scale, the best we can use in translating the math into language is clumsy metaphors.
As far as your grasp of electromagnetism, it seems to come from the '50s.
The Standard Model classifies light as a phenomenon with wavelike behavior, particle behavior, and behavior unique to light. To think it is one or the other is to misuse scientific language, as silly as thinking of the lingusitic characteristics of quarks (charmed, strange, etc.) as actually having meanings related to our typical understanding of "charm" or "strange" or whatever.
It really sounds like it is time for you to read a current textbook. I've used Paul Hewitt's Conceptual Physics in my classroom with great success.