Waves and Particle Behavior

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How can we understand the fact that tiny particles like photons behave both as waves and particles? This seems to contradict Einstein's equation (E=hv) that connects a particle's energy to its frequency. How do these two ideas fit together?

[Rachel]

Particles are very very small things, and can be just about anything. Particles make up waves, and photons specifically travel in waves - so essentially photons (a type of particle) are traveling in waves - they themselves are not necessarily waves