as soon as you say photon it seems like some stuff…like matter with a certain mass…
there needs to be a better way of describing something that seems to act sometimes like a wave and and sometimes like a particle…
the word photon only implies particle to me…
and a packet of energy sounds like an oxymoron…
Hmm you are exploring something that is so fundamental to the problems with physics that it can’t be explained simply.
But let’s just say that a photon is considered a warticle: not a particle or a wave but something that has both properties according to how we look at it.
I just can’t put why it is a problem in a simple way, but suffice to say I don’t think anyone really fundamentally understands wave particle duality. We only understand it in comparisons to classical systems that are not apt, and quantum systems that are not apt to classical ones. Suffice to say this is at the heart of the problems we have, and we have been struggling with this conundrum for years. Even explaining what exactly it means to have duality is tough. Take the bird in a cage illusion though, if you twist a bird around fast enough on a piece of string with two sides, with a cage on its back face, you will see a bird in a cage because of the limitations with vision we have. No bird is in a cage, and no bird is free. This is where we are. Heaven help us. 
calrid–nice job on wave-particle duality…
Not my analogy but it is a good one.
turtles are a problem. 
With very many “experiments”, you are actually watching a magic show, not real Science regardless of the fame of the hosts.
And btw, all particles have similar properties to photons. The primary distinction is merely that photons have no inertial mass in the classic sense. They represent the “minimum particle” right at the edge of not even being a particle. All particles are “packets of energy” and nothing more.
you may be right but i dont understand this… i need help…
Yes.
…but what does that have to do with photons? You seem to be obsessed with the subject. 