No wonder radiation is not well understood...

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Radiation is everything and nothing simultaneously!

Light, heat, x-rays, gamma rays are all considered to be photons--"things" that were they not moving would have no mass but because they are moving at such incredible speed appear to have mass.

Yet gravity is explained by considering mass as a collection of photons! (VERY interesting link to the topic below.)

http://www.stkusers.com/photonics/gravity.html

Radiation is considered "massless and wavelike" until of such intensity that the "waves" cease and particles that DO have measurable mass are transferred, i.e. alpha (helium nucleus) and beta (electron) radiation. All move at the same speed (that of light) yet the amplitude of a single photon is constant regardless of frequency! This seems to imply that while the distance between two object may be constant that the path taken by a high frequency photon is somehow "longer" yet its speed is constant yet both arrive at the same time!

If I'm understanding the link below properly, incredibly complex molecules are being constructed that are able to convert photons from the sun into some perverse form of beta radiation--that without mass "becomes" something with mass!

http://www.technews.vt.edu/Archives/1997/Mar/97096.html

What's next? Even more complex molecules that convert photons into a perverse form of alpha radiation? Yet more complex molecules that do both at the same time?

Turn "nothing" into "something"?

Tesla demonstrated long ago that even incredibly diffuse cosmic radiation can be "stored" in the form of potential electrical energy in a capacitor. He insisted that it was possible to use this to "produce" concentrated, usable and nearly unlimited energy.

Perhaps molecular transportion is not the realm of science fiction but in fact is occurring all around us constantly and between all objects.

I NEVER should have gone to sleep during "Planet of the Apes" marathons recently. Twice I seem to have drifted off during "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" when the mutants were worshiping the "doomsday bomb" as the "beginning and the end".