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I think the point about wave-particle duality is that you're trying to force an analogy on light (or an electron )
Light isn't wave-like or particle-like it's light-like.
We have a tendancy to think of light as little bullets (photons) or waves because it's easier for us to understand.
Then we look really carefully and the analogy breaks down and we scream and shout about it!
The photon does not actually necessarily exist (whatever that means) as a point travelling through space but may occupy many locations and has a probability of occupying any of those locations
This is basically the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics Wikipedia have a page on it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
Yes it's pretty daft sounding and Einstein loathed it. In fact he and two others came up with an experiment called the EPR paradox which was meant to show it was wrong it pitted relativity against QM. He didn't live to see the testing of it in 1980 - Relativity lost.
There are other interpretations such as "many worlds" where the universe splits at quantum events in one universe the photon goes through one split and in the other it goes through the second.
All of them will screw with your head though