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Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Current Thinking Is That Light Is Its Own Anti Particle

photons are what are known as force carrying particles. Another force carrying particle is a gluon. Gluons like glue the quarks on to each other to make protons and neutrons. What photons do is they carry the electromagnetic force, and as a result, they're neutral. And soa, the current thinking is that light is its own anti particle. But there is some question about that. i recently was looking at a paper that proposed that we may be able to distinguish anti light from reg light. There may be an experimental way we can test that.

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