eli5 What is light made up of? Where does it come from inside a torch? Is light just un-containable luminous particles than can never be studied as a single unit inside a Microscope?

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eli5 What is light made up of? Where does it come from inside a torch? Is light just un-containable luminous particles than can never be studied as a single unit inside a Microscope?

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Answer 1

Photons. Depending how you look at them, they are either a wave across the electromagnetic spectrum, or a stream of tiny little particles being emitted from chemical reactions.

That explanation won’t get you a doctorate but should bore a 5yr old enough to satisfy them.