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

Cool idea.But in the real workd, the vibrational frequency is so high that it would disintegrate any macroscale material object.

So The real world uses tiny things like electrons, instead. Check out how neon lights work, for a (relatively) simple example.