Recent content by phaeton

lol, we'll need to petition for this indeed :D hehe You do make a very good point though...

Is energy truly not tangible? We perceive tangibly the effects of energy all around us. Light is both wave and particle, so what if substance actually is somehow both matter and energy in a similar way? Consider this picture for a moment: This is how I imagine light to be both wave and...

Substance is unspecified by nature. I am proposing that substance include energy as well as mass, in which case my original question would appear to have a positive answer as opposed to negative. Attempts at the specification of energy's signatures across the universe would be the result of...

substance [ˈsʌbstəns] n 1. the tangible matter of which a thing consists 2. a specific type of matter, esp a homogeneous material with a definite composition 3. the essence, meaning, etc., of a written or spoken thought 4. solid or meaningful quality 5. (Physics / General Physics) material...

Excellent, that seems relatively straight forward... But seeing as how photons are capable of such things, capable of anything at all, would that not lend credence to thought of photons possessing substance, whether that be mass or energy? Maybe a better question is whether or not substance...

I was merely referencing my introduction to this forum. I was looking for some answers to said debate when I was lead to a thread on this forum which is in it's sixth year on continually renewed interest and debate. I may have chosen poorly when using the word "raging" but it seemed to me that...

It certainly does become more tricky when trying to reconcile two seemingly divergent schools of thought. Though, it is lately becoming more accepted that interdisciplinary approaches are far more beneficial. Do you by chance have an opinion on this particular matter?

And your reasoning is...?

This is great. I had suspected this would be the case. Thank you all for helping me work through this. Now I must pose yet another question which will take me closer to my end goal: Since, in a matter of speaking, there is "no true darkness," because there are photons being propagated within...

This is more to the point which i was after. The others were digressing into human biological interpretation of the visible spectrum as opposed to the full natural spectrum. This seems a relatively definitive argument in my favor. With that being said, I'll pose a new question: If there...

Considering that what most people think of as light is just the visible spectrum of electromagnetism, while much more exists on either end, are the frequencies beyond either end of the visible spectrum still light? If so, since electromagnetic fluctuations permeate the known universe, is there...