Does light occupy space?

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My son wants to know how we can perceive light and it not take up any space at the same time.

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Light has a size (the wavelength), but the pieces of light are allowed to overlap with each other. So it exists in space, but doesn’t “take up” the space in the sense of preventing other light from being there too.

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