Re: heat is a form of energy

[Cliff Parker <cparker@EMPOWERING.COM>]

>  I have high school teachers asking me
> if photons are pure energy. How do I answer such a question?
> Most of them don't know what a photon is (I'm not sure I could
> tell them) and if I tell them there's no such thing as "pure
> energy" they just don't seem to want to hear me.

Leigh,

You may chose not to get into this but I wish you would.  I am one of those
high school teachers and I am a bit confused.  Is the reason you would not call
a photon pure energy because of the dual nature of light?  If there is no such
thing as pure energy then what is a wave?  I have thought that describing a
wave as pure energy was appropriate.  If this is not the case I would like to
have you and or others help me to clarify my thinking.