What is it with your obsession with mass? You know next to nothing about particle physics but you still claim to know something that for example Stephen Hawking does not. A photon is a very bizarre thing in many aspects since it automatically travels at the speed of light and is at the same time a neutral particle/wave that is not affected by any magnetic or electromagnetic fields whatsoever. There's nothing to currently suggest that it has mass.
Energy equals mass only when there is any mass to be had as in the theory of relativity and it's described by the famous formula E=mc^2. An objects/particles total mass is also given by
where you can clearly see(if you know basic math and physics) that if you get really close to the speed of light you'd require an infinite amount of energy to travel any faster and hence your relativistic mass increases.
This does not apply to photons however as described by E=hc/λ. It's energy only depends on it's frequency! Get this into your head!
He has the same approach towards physics that Johnny Falcon has towards medicine/physiology - have very little knowledge of the fundamental concepts and then try to explain phenomenon using a simplistic, illiterate approach that involves rationalization using non-scientific arguments, while expressing contempt for experts who've actually studied and developed theories in the field.
You won't get any scientific rebuttal from tbombz regarding the mass energy equation, just an oversimplified, illogical argument that's a mixture of metaphor, metaphysics and semantics, like, "If it has no mass, how can it exist?"
