Sorcerer

Right, and that quantum depends on their wavelength, this is energy and as such is proportional to mass as in e=mc^2.... however photons don't have mass.... or no rest mass...... so its called momentum.... is this just an elaborate pseudonym.... I mean how can a photon ever be at rest???? ie if a photon were at rest wouldn't it cease to exist. The point I was trying to make with photons being radiation, is that when a matter and antimatter pair annihilate, they exactly cancel out and produce photons..... as such I would infer that photons make up the matter, however since photons have no mass then how did they make up something that does have mass. Perhaps I have oversimplified, or wherever I read this oversimplified..... apparently the theory goes there is a Higg's boson, and this interacts with neutrinos (also supposedly being 0 mass btw) which somehow produce the force called gravity........ so I guess the model of antimatter/matter annihilation must also contain bosons and neutrinos..... do these fall into the category of radiation? Btw I don't like the idea of wave particle duality, I don't care what people tell me I like to think for myself.... nowhere in the double slit experiment does it rule out the possibility that photons are wavefronts and that all light travels as waves, I think that it is only the interaction of a wave with matter that allows us to quantise the wave front and give it a measure of energy.... this does not seem to me to need to be visualised as a discrete entity... it is merely the causal result of the wave interaction. Bah u probably think Im an egghead..... but I have way more questions than answers... and my ideas are in no way mainstream.

For starters, its been said that photons have energy, but they aren't energy....... what else do they have that seperates them?? Photons have mass, but no rest mass..... how can u have a photon at rest? I've been told that all matter is comprised of energy, but that photons do not make up matter.... yet I have also been told that when matter and antimatter annihilate they produce radiation.... I always thought radiation was photons. So since matter produces photons and has mass, how can matter not be made from photons...... and how can it have mass if it is. Wouldnt the speed of light be the same even if photons did have mass.... it would just mean that things with less mass could go faster.... but since we cant observe them (cause they r travelling faster than c) they don't exist..... is this tachyons? Wouldn't it be impossible to measure the weight of a photon, since it would require a perfect scale, a huge ammount of photons a way of quantifying them and an exact measure of the weight of a vaccuum(which apparently has energy, and hence mass). Plus the ability to account for undetectable annomalies such as neutrinos which could be there too. As u can see I am tearing my hair out, and I don't go in for the classical 1 liner posts....... sorry if I confused u too.