Talk:Firebending/@comment-110.55.8.191-20120606063949/@comment-128.62.31.97-20120610014832

Fire =/= light. Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, carried in small 'packets' (aka quanta) called photons. Photons are created by the electrons in an atom: electrons are easily energized, which causes them to jump to a higher orbit, but tend to want to go back to their original orbit, and thus have to release that energy to do so. The packet of energy they release is a photon. Fire is a chemical reaction. If it contains enough energy, the electrons involved will create photons and therefore light, but the fire itself is NOT light. Therefore, light cannot be 'bent' unless there is such a thing as quantabending. ...Although when I think about it, perhaps that means that a gravitational lens could be considered a 'quantabender', in real life.

Also, a mirage is not the same thing as a hallucination.