To address ObieX's question regarding matter-
(and correcct me if I'm wrong here)
When you're pressing your finger against a key on your keyboard, what's happening on the atomic (and smaller) scale is the electrical field present in the molecules in your body are pushing against the molecules in the keyboard. This is how we "touch" solid objects. Solidity isn't anything more than electrostatic fields repelling each other.
I kind think there's an assumption being made that isn't valid in terms of the concept being discussed. "Matter" is a form of energy. Energy takes multitudinous forms, but what it all comes down to in terms of matter is fields, primarily electrical, that bond, repel, and interact with the environment around them. People can'/haven't taken a peek at the protons of a carbon atom, they're detected/interpreted by instruments measuring a particular condition that is affected by the desired object of study.
In other words, we "see" it by measuring what it does. Like proving the moon is there by watching the shadow it casts on the sun. I have to admit I'm not a serious study on the subject, so this is mostly a general ( possibly wrong) understanding of things.
I'm not sure what you're saying regarding photon's, I've never heard of them being polar particles co-existing. My understanding of matter/anti-matter is that that is by definition impossible, matter/anti-matter immediately obliterates each other barring of extreme circumstances.
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