AMA | September 2024

10490.431 - 10518.231 Sean Carroll

I can bounce photons off a mirror, right? I can detect photons in a CCD camera. I don't see any problem with pushing photons in a very real way. I really am not sure what your friend is getting at. There is a true statement you can make that is sort of grammatically similar to this statement, which is that photons interact with charged particles, but photons are not themselves charged particles.