How is light considered “electromagnetic” radiation, What does it have to do with electromagnetism?

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How is light considered “electromagnetic” radiation, What does it have to do with electromagnetism?

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It just is. We use the word “electromagnetism” to describe the phenomena of which light is a subset. Visible light, gamma radiation, radio waves…is all radiative energy transfer that causes simultaneous electric and magnetic field changes in a repeating manner.

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