Thought: Light

There is an article (here) that talks about a particle moving faster than the speed of light.. Which got me thinking about what the speed of light is, and granted scientists have figured this out, but I'm not a scientist, so I can still hypothesize... Nothing concrete; But light needs particles to be seen.. light waves traveling across webs of atoms in a sort of chain reaction... not a diffusion, as in other waves (i.e. sound, vibration).  Light seems to have a unique property of holding intensity through space... Does light get trapped in anything?  A circle of particles...  The speed of light is the speed of lightning.. the speed of our neurons, the speed of automatic response within the particle, not the disruption caused by movement.. Is it the transferring of electrons? Or hitting electrons, like in tetherball... Makes more sense to me in these terms how light creates life.