A photon is the result of the wave of light hitting a non-penetrable barrier, such as a material object. The result of this collision is a local disturbance of the background field, that can be perceived by the human eye and by our measuring instruments - the photon. Thus we see that light can be a wave one moment and a stream of particles the next. Its exceptionally smooth surface allows the wave to recompose as a wave, going off in a different direction, instead of being disrupted as it is by other kinds of solid objects. Matter, thus, does not seem to have an independent existence except as an accumulation of a great number of mini-tornadoes in the background of space which in turn is pure potential energy.
Motion is what puts things together, what constructs our universe.
My purpose in writing this article is to stimulate thought and discussion about some of our basic assumptions in physics.