SciContest! Why can't matter be made of photons?

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Diode-Man said:
Photons are products of excited (heated) atomic matter. The wave frequency (beats or waves per second) of the photons of white light are so high that it can reach 400 to 790,000,000,000,000 waves per second! (Tera-hertz frequency)

With such erratic motions it would be impossible for a photon to become a solid or permanent piece of any molecular or atomic configuration. If in a laboratory, one attempted to forcibly make a photon join in with say a particle of Earth dirt, the photon would just bounce away unable to be joined with the solid matter. It may be the case because the photon cannot be contained in a magnetic field.

Ultimately however, like electricity, we can only know what a photon DOES and not what constructs it, it is I believe, what I'm going to term a "base unit" of the Universe.

:D (I am a "layman"... have I come close on my statements? )
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Let me try ben.

The motion of the photons, erratic as they are, can still make up spatial freedom inside an atom. If we can deal with infinitesimal units of strings in string theory, just shows how much space a fundamental particle can take up. Even in the confinements of a particle with rest mass.
 
Why matter can not be made up of photons.

Argument:

The radius of the Electron is less than 10^-13 m
The mass of the Electron is 9.1e-31 kg
The energy equivalence of the mass of an electron is 8.14e-14 joules
The wavelength of a single photon with the energy equivalence of the mass of an electron is 2.43e-12 m, about 10 times the diameter of the electron.

Ergo, for an electron to be made up of a single photon, it would have to be made up of something larger than its own diameter.

Trying to have the electron being made up of more than one photon makes the problem worse. Each photon would have to have a fraction of the energy equivalence of the electron, and as the energy of a photon decreases, its wavelength increases.
 
Ok this thread is supposed to be to show that matter can not be composed of photons alone. The only evidence of that that I've found in the last 20 years is that you can't make a nutrino out of a one-photon particle. It would have to be charged; and it is not.

But that is the only thing. And there might be some way to do it that we just don't yet know.
 
Janus58 said:
Why matter can not be made up of photons.

Argument:

The radius of the Electron is less than 10^-13 m
The mass of the Electron is 9.1e-31 kg
The energy equivalence of the mass of an electron is 8.14e-14 joules
The wavelength of a single photon with the energy equivalence of the mass of an electron is 2.43e-12 m, about 10 times the diameter of the electron.

Ergo, for an electron to be made up of a single photon, it would have to be made up of something larger than its own diameter.

Trying to have the electron being made up of more than one photon makes the problem worse. Each photon would have to have a fraction of the energy equivalence of the electron, and as the energy of a photon decreases, its wavelength increases.
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What about Vern's arguement in another thread:

''Case Nine: The electron has no solid core. All attempts to measure a size for an electron that is smaller than its classic electron diameter have shown that there is nothing there. This indicates that an electron only exists at its electromagnetic diameter. This would naturally and necessarily be the case if the electron were a one-photon particle. There is no philosophically sound alternative.''
 
Janus58 said:
Why matter can not be made up of photons.

Argument:

The radius of the Electron is less than 10^-13 m
The mass of the Electron is 9.1e-31 kg
The energy equivalence of the mass of an electron is 8.14e-14 joules
The wavelength of a single photon with the energy equivalence of the mass of an electron is 2.43e-12 m, about 10 times the diameter of the electron.

Ergo, for an electron to be made up of a single photon, it would have to be made up of something larger than its own diameter.

Trying to have the electron being made up of more than one photon makes the problem worse. Each photon would have to have a fraction of the energy equivalence of the electron, and as the energy of a photon decreases, its wavelength increases.
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Ahh GREAT argument Janus---I hadn't thought of this one. Entry #7.
 
Reiku said:
What about Vern's arguement in another thread:

''Case Nine: The electron has no solid core. All attempts to measure a size for an electron that is smaller than its classic electron diameter have shown that there is nothing there. This indicates that an electron only exists at its electromagnetic diameter. This would naturally and necessarily be the case if the electron were a one-photon particle. There is no philosophically sound alternative.''
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Reference? What is the lower limit on the electron radius?
 
Janus58 said:
The radius of the Electron is less than 10^-13 m
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All attempts to measure an Electron size smaller than its electromagnetic radius failed to find anything. It is a stretch to claim this means the electron is smaller. We can just as easily say the electron only exists at its electromagnetic radius and so it is the largest of the elementary particles.
 
The photon is a minimum sized packet of energy. I don't even think there are any sizes to the photon, because it's so very small. At least with an electron, we have a mathematical size for it, which may be even smaller. But surely can't be larger than a photon, since an electron with mass must have a structure that is larger than a photon.

Ben,

It's in John's thread, Matter is Photons? In the link.
 
BenTheMan said:
Vern---you are invited to poke holes in arguments, but not to advance any of your theories.
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Ok BenTheMan; I'll try my best not to get my own ideas involved; but I don't have any theories. Just know a few facts :)
 
Vern said:
All attempts to measure an Electron size smaller than its electromagnetic radius failed to find anything. It is a stretch to claim this means the electron is smaller. We can just as easily say the electron only exists at its electromagnetic radius and so it is the largest of the elementary particles.
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Reference?
 
Reiku said:
Ben,

It's in John's thread, Matter is Photons? In the link.
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Not to another SciForums thread!

I want an experiment, or a paper that I can read, that says "The lower limit on the electron radius is..."
 
He's right Ben. All attempts to measure the electrons radius have failed miserably. Only a few years back i was reading a paper that expressed that the electron is best to be said not to have a structure at all.
 
Here it says it has never been determined exactly.

Diameter, Radius of an Electron"The radius of the electron has not been determined exactly but it is known to be less than 1 × 10-13 cm", < 10-15 m. "Ro = 2.82 × 10-13 cm", 2.82 × 10-15 m ...
hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/DannyDonohue.shtml - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
 
The present lower limit of the electron radius was established by a physicist at MIT who failed to find anything larger then 10 -16 cm and so concluded that the electron must be smaller. That is bad logic.
 
We do know for sure that there is something about the electron that exists at its electromagnetic radius. We don't KNOW any other electron size that exists.
 
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