Understanding of the wave particle duality property.
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Research an unknown something, the most taboo is forced to take what is known to contact understand.
I tell you one thing, roughly equivalent to the four pillars above the top of a wall, there are two palm-leaf fan and a pipe above, what is this thing?
This is the "elephant" elephant. You can not go to describe an unknown thing by any known thing.
We are now for microscopic particles (photons atomic electron) understanding way, no different from elephant.
So whether you how to understand the "wave / acoustic" is a particle, or "small ball" in a manner reflective wave diffraction, it is understood can not. This is not IQ, is the problem of thinking.
A micro details appreciated from the perspective of wave-particle duality (in order to avoid semantic understanding bias caused by microscopic particles do not call), is simply:
1, that the matter is a separate unit, the group composed of many things is not continuously.
2, many of the things that make up the group exhibit diffraction, interference and other characteristics.
You do not need to understand "why the elephant's ears like palm-leaf fan," and just remember something like "elephant ears like palm-leaf fan" of such information to help you know the elephant.
Besides two "Remember just fine," the knowledge that will help you more easily around the dead end of thinking:
1, the definition of wave, now is not based on the waves or mechanical waves. Precisely defined wave from something similar such light waves. And thus not as light as wave fluctuations, but a bit like a light wave fluctuations in performance terms.
2, (and this is a hypothesis, but relatively reasonable) microscopic particles, may not be the one you imagine another small ball. Insist, then it is a mass of nothingness probability, floating ah floating. As a representative of the probability clouds. Its mass / charge may appear at any position that a cloud group. Just when you go looking for it, the probability was only finalized. A cloud shrunk to a smaller cloud (looks a lot like our usual concept in microscopic particles: a solid ball). You might be hard to understand a little ball exhibiting volatility in together into a bunch of times, but you should be able to understand many, many groups fluctuating water / cloud, a large group together and become fluctuating water / cloud.