What are alternative particles to photons that would allow vision?

I swear I saw this question elsewhere. Let me know if this is a dupe.

Photons are great. They're little bundles of energy that

• Reflect off of nearly everything, allowing us to see faraway objects that don't necessarily produce their own light
• Are practically everywhere, allowing us to see most of our world
• Are somewhat easy to detect
• Don't kill us (most of the time)
• Provide detail (in the form of colors/different wavelengths)

I'm interested in replacing them with a different particle for a fictional species - but I don't know if anything else matches the above qualities.

What particles, real or theoretical, would meet the above criteria well enough to provide adequate vision, besides photons?

My thoughts so far have been about neutrinos (although they are hard to detect), positrons (annihilate themselves) and gravitons (hard to detect).

posted almost 8 years ago

Zxyrra‭

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