Clooney (see below July 5th) needs to return to this Planet. After six weeks of total silence despite the pithy and substantive issues that have been analyzed on this forum, he betakes himself from his tidy cocoon and renders for us a riddle of piddling importance.
Like we give a fiddlers fart whethera photon is a particle or a glint of God's eye. We here are concerned with things of this earth or at least this astral plane. The big bang is simply the scientist's way of saying "We haven't got a clue what happened, or when or why. We call it the big bang because we seldom get laid, so we think creation sounds like an explosion. "
What the Hubble telescope saw could easily be explained by a refracted reflection from an upstairs lavatory at Buckingham Palace for all we know. Come back to earth, Clooney.
Never mind speculating on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Get someone to do a lap dance on your Photonic Special Purpose.