Re: [OT] RE: Actual Warp Drive Theory

Steve Pugh wrote:

> > It has been a while since I followed particle physics, so I will
waste
> > a little bandwidth and ask:
> >
> > I have heard photons described as "free electrons".
>
> A very erroneous description.
>

Yep.  Though I've heard that term used as well.

A photon is actually an electron/anti-electron pair.

>
> > Has physics predicted an anti-photon?
>
> Photons are their own anti-particles. Same for all the mediating
> bosons (gravitons, W, Z, gluons).
>

This gets tricky to answer since photons don't have an anti-photon
particle
but since light is also a wave, a photon can have a wave form that is
opposite to that of another photon.  Those to photons meeting each other
would cancel each other out.

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