In article <408c5c93$1@news.povray.org>,
 Dan P <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Heat actually is a form of light.

Heat is a mass property of large groups of particles, related to the 
kinetic energy of the particles in the group. Heat is not infrared 
light, infrared just happens to be emitted by hot objects and readily 
absorbed by objects, heating them in the process. Hotter objects will 
emit in the visible range. Really, really hot objects emit in the 
X-ray/gamma range, but you don't really even have things like atoms at 
those energy levels.


> Actually, all matter is made of light as well.

Er, matter and energy are equivalent, and one can be converted to the 
other. Light is another form of energy, but saying matter is made of 
light is like saying mountains are made of stone walls because both are 
made of stone.

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