Photons are lumps of energy,does that mean they contain particles made up of volume and mass?

Answer 1

Photon is small discrete packet which carry energy. I know you sure will link your Q to Einstein's mass-energy equation E=mc^2
but I think there is no relation between them.

Answer 2

You're skirting around a very interesting issue in physics. If E = mc^2, and this has been proved, and a photon is a packet of vibrating energy, should there not be an equivalent rest mass (m) for that photon?

The answer appears to be no...there is no equivalent mass for a photon, despite it having energy. A photon is massless; it has no inertial characteristics. For example, its direction can be changed without adding energy to the photon. We do it all the time with mirrors.

Newton's law says to change a moving objects direction, we have to put in some force, some energy, to make that change. But that applies only to inertial mass. Anything lacking inertial mass is not covered by Newton's laws. Thus, photons simply change direction when hitting a mirror without any additional energy put into that change.

In sum, photons have energy and momentum, but they do not have inertia and its attending inertial mass. The Higgs Field theory attempts to explain why this is so. [See source.]

In a nutshell, the hypothesis is that the Higgs Field is a higher dimensional field of bosons that have directional characteristics in both our 4D world and in the higher dimensions. That is, a particle in our world can flow with or against the grain of the Higgs Field. The Field fills the entire universe; so all particles are affected by it no matter where they are.

If the particle flows with the field (in one of the higher dimensions, not our 4D ones), then the particle has no inertia...it is massless in our world. If it flows against the grain, it will manifest inertial qualities (Newton's laws) in our universe. Thus, by this yet untested theory, photons go with the flow of the Higgs Field.

Answer 3

Photons are seen to be 0-dimensional debris. They soak up no volume in any respect and have no mass or value. All a photon has are 2 achievable polarization states, a wave vector, and a direction of propagation. Even between undemanding debris, a photon is heavily uncomplicated.

Answer 4

Photons are strictly energy. Zero volume, zero mass.

Answer 5

No, photons are electromagnetic radiation, they can exhibit properties of mass like being affected by gravity and possessing momentum, but they have zero rest mass.

Answer 6

Nope.

Answer 7

nope. electrical charges have no mass.