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Originally Posted by kring
for example, the most common is light is made of photons - well likely not actually. That's only how we like to explain it... it's more probable light is an electromagnetic wave traveling like a ripple in a pond across dark mater/energy and not a particle that gets shot out which hits your eye or a wall to see it.
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I believe you're mixing/confusing a function of a particle with the identification of a particle.
Photons are particles.
Light is a wave.
Electromagnetism is a Force.
Forces affect particles.
Everything we know of is a wave, in the sense that motion/vibration/actions/etc can be represented as a 2d wave. If we're defining a wave as motion over time. The exception to this is Absolute Zero, and is the basis for for it.
Motion is out human defining characteristic for all things. If we can't quantify motion, we have no real classification for it or can't find it. This may be where the quandary of dark matter falls. Think of it as a maze in a pitch black room and you have to walk through it. You bump into things, you don't know what they are but you know it was there.