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Upon reading this thread, I have decided to take the advice of Mark Twain when he said, "Better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you're a fool then to open it and remove all doubt."

Actually, we're learning quite a bit about this. It turns out that both are right (to some extent), and that more answers simply raise more questions, and that all 'of the answers are yet to be found'. There have actually been a rash of new discoveries in the last year on how they behave. The One hypothesis, that makes the most sense, is one that scientists (including myself) are steering away from. You see,... from what we can tell matter seems to disappear sometimes. Oh gawds the question that one is raising! The simple answer is that they are not, in fact, disappearing, but they are in three states: Material - in our dimension, energy, and Material - in another dimension. But we don't understand "Other Dimensions" and some simply don't believe in them (realists), even though fractal and string/superstring math supports this. But then again, we used to believe that nothing moves faster than the speed of light (Einstien). Some Bright young (then) Quantum Physicist pointed out that in order to convert matter into energy it has to move at the speed of light squared. Well Einstien was upset at that, using his formula to point out the obvious. He eschewed quantum physics as nonsense. We are just learning, we'll know more next year. I figured out how to flip a quantum field tis year in a cloud of plasma. that discovery yielded tremendous possibilities in nanotechnology. Naturally, as a research assistant, I won't get credit,... others will. But one day it'll be my turn to publish my findings. Electrons do a lot of funny things besided the duality they exhibit. It's all fascinating to me. For instance, they travel fast enough to convert into energy.

I just hope you're not the one hurting the cows, Ham......