[baudrunner]

The essence of theoretical physics is first to come up with a good idea and then see if the idea holds merit, sometimes through quantification, other times through the sheer logic of presumption. I don't know what makes mathematics anymore valid than logic, since it is not applicable in all areas. We believe in photons, I personally don't know exactly why we do, since they are entirely based on theory and the only way that we have been able to measure them is by way of the energy required to produce the purported evidence. They don't exist by themselves and do not appear spontaneously. They have been established as having no mass and all sorts of inane rationalizations have been presented to explain certain logical inconsistencies, like --- since photons travel at the speed of light they should have infinite mass and exist in a place where time stands still - so they theorize that their acelleration rate from rest to c does not exist, that their acelleration occurs instantaneously, I mean, what an absurd idea! And yet the majority of people still believe in photons. Why? Because light is obvious and darkness isn't? No, because most people are afraid to think!