I will try my best to explain this question because I’ve googled multiple times over a decade and have asked a physics PhD and neither could understand what I meant, nor answered the question.
I understand that Photons are wave-particles. The smaller the wavelength, the more frequency. I also know that electromagnetism are 2 of the “same thing”, using the same force particle, a photon.
So what frequency do photons that are a acting as strictly magnetic? Magnetism seems to penetrate a heck of a lot more things than even gamma rays (excluding some metals), so why’s that? What makes them different, if they’re the same particle? Are magnetism photons “straight” or act more as a particle than a wave? Do magnetic photons experience the Doppler Effect? If we can count light photons with special instruments, can we do the same with magnet photons? What causes magnetic photons to “bend” around a magnetic object? Like if there was an MRI machine, does that mean there are just a LOT more magnetic photons or is the amplitude of them greater? Can magnetic photons turn into light photons directly?
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You are talking about the distinction between photons that make up visible light, vs. photons as force carrier particles of the electromagnetic force?
The photons that transmit electric forces between charged particles are virtual photons. More information here if you’re curious: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_photon#:~:text=Virtual%20photons%20are%20thought%20of,other%20by%20exchanging%20virtual%20photons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_photon#:~:text=Virtual%20photons%20are%20thought%20of,other%20by%20exchanging%20virtual%20photons).
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