Another Science Question

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Originally Posted by Red October1984

Quantum Physics time....

Ok....

All things are made of matter right? Things that have mass have matter and take up space.

A Photon is defined in my textbook as massless.

What is a Photon made of then? Sure, it's energy...but what's that made of?

A photon is a massless particle, it is in fact made out of energy. Per Einstein's mass-energy equivalence it would probably be more accurate to say that "all things are made of energy" anyway, but that probably has a much better definition somewhere.

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Also, Gamma Radiation is defined as massless....what about that?

Gamma radiation is basically electromagnetic radiation (light) of a certain (very high) frequency range. So that is not terribly surprising.

Also, I'm not really sure this has much to do with quantum mechanics...