Talk:Plasma Manipulation/@comment-29564364-20170306000342/@comment-5265497-20180704191448

You are correct that photons are a force carrier and actually pass their 'energy' along. Throughout the world of physics, light as electromagnetic propogation, has been recognized as radiant energy because, as it has is the capacity to do work, it can excite electrons. That's why photons are called discrete packets of energy.