If the electromagnetic force is carried by photons, why don’t magnets glow or something?
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I’m not sure that this is accurate.
But even if it is, your eyes can detect only a very small range of photons.
If you meant electromagnetic waves, then the answer is that we see some of them, and call them colors. The rest we cant see, like Infra red or X-ray
Changes in a field are transmitted by the photon. Only the change, sorry if a way to update the world about the ones new motion and position.
So a magnet sitting there does not emit photons. If you move it, Shaker it, etc it does. However disturbances that occur on a scale we can percieve will only generate very low energy radio waves.
High energy radio waves have a frequency of 300 gigahertz. That’s billions of oscillations a second.
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