Many elements have a glow effect. Fire, lava, plasma, and cold flames to name a few. When photons are reflected by lava, they turn red. This makes no sense. Shouldn't lava emit red photons instead, and reflect white ones? Lava glows in real life, and in many display modes, so it should emit light instead of tinting reflected light.

Elements with a glow effect should emit photons. Fire, lava, and solids or powders hot enough to glow emit red to orange photons, depending on their temperature. Cold flames and plasma emit blue photons, and GLOW is unchanged because it boosts photons that pass through it. Certain activated electronics like liquid crystal and EMP can emit green photons. Bomb, TNT, and DEST explosions emit yellow-white photons. Lightning and THDR give off pale blue photons.

In addition, I suggest a new type of photon. INFR, infrared photons, are emitted by hot materials, are dark red, and are the exact temperature of whatever spawned them. If the material emitting INFR reaches the temperature where it starts to glow, it stops emitting INFR and begins to emit red photons. At temperatures beow 100C, nothing emits INFR. This allows for radiative heating as well as the current conduction and convection heating. For every INFR particle emitted, the material loses a very small amount of heat. And because infrared photons are unlikely to start fires, they can be used to send signals where normal photons could do some damage.

Finally, photons can be redshifted by black holes and blueshifted by white holes. They need to pass within 5 pixels of the black/white hole to be affected, to avoid potentially breaking saves. Infrared photons that pass within that range turn into red photons when blueshifted, and blue photons turn green when redshifted.

Nuclear bombs can now vaporize their targets with a wave of intense, deadly light. Solar panels can draw power from fires and lava. Plasma can be used to make lasers, or simply act as fancy lighting. A black hole or a white hole can be used to change the color of photons without reflecting them off other things or using a filter.

@The-Fall (View Post)

 I meant that lava would emit photons a bit more frequently than ISZS. It's nothing like CLNE emitting photons. Plasma would emit photons at a slightly higher rate, and these photons can be turned off like the water equalization or ambient heating. Nuclear explosions should release a burst of photons as well as neutrons.

EDIT: Plama != plasma.