are photons part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

Question

My partner and I are casually chatting about how strange the electromagnetic spectrum is, as we sometimes do. The idea came up of creating an antenna that vibrates at the right frequency to produce various colors of light. But then I remembered that “light is both a wave and a particle” … so can someone how photons (right?) relate to the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum?

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Answer 1

Photons aren’t *part* of the electromagnetic spectrum, they are the force carrier particle for *all* electromagnetic energy. Radio waves, gamma rays, x-rays, visible light…etc are all electromagnetic energy and thus, from a particle standpoint, are all just photons of different energies.