Maybe an illegal question. Sorry. Having read that a photon has both wave and a light characteristics it is natural for a novice like myself to wonder "what is the amplitude? " Naturally I have looked on wiki and other sources and there are a number of answers some of which appear not so much to contradict one another of varying opinions of which is the most meaningful in physics.
I seem to get a higher number of physics sources saying the amplitude depends on how many photons you have and if you have one the question has no meaning. Of course I have not idea if this is accurate or how one would even test this.
Maybe there are some physics teachers in the audience that can give me a layman's intuition with a little math tossed in. Thank you
