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?

In: Physics

Answer 1

light is a vibration of the electromagnetic field.

It comes from the electrons within atoms and molecules, when they lose emergy they emit light.