Here is the shape of the photon that comes out of the calculations. Image credit: Benjamin Yuen
From analog to digital depending on whether the photon is moving in space as a wave or interacting with an electron as a particle, the ability to see what this boson actually looks like remained but a dream until now.
Light as a wave. | analog
Light as a particle.
Light is indeed weird but so is reality. :)
And so it goes. - K. Vonnegut