Nice article. But here is an example of a sneaky little physicist lie. More correctly "..collecting massless electromagnetic energy and transmitting it.." The "photons" are not necessarily travelling through space as particles but the electromagnetic energy is detected as discrete photon quanta and transmitted by the kinetic action of these photons.

https://medium.com/liecatcher/physicist-admits-they-all-lie-alot-d492adc65fe2