…es the electromagnetic force. The best description I’ve found so far comes from Wikipedia: viz., photons are ‘chunked ripples in a field, or “excitations”, that “look like” particles’ (Wikipedia s.v.; emphasis added). That is, a photon can be considered as a discretely located (w…

…ibraries, then you’ve probably come across some really strange maps during your Wikipedia wormhole plummets. Reading about the European discovery of the New World is one thing, but sifting through the speculative maps they made is another adventure entirely. With such limited inf…