If visible light is a wave, does that mean that in between the peaks of the wave there are periods of darkness? Can we see them?
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Light flickers between an electric field and a magnetic field, it does not flicker in brightness. An electric field is like when you have a static charge, rubbing a balloon against your hair. A magnetic field is like what is next to a magnet, and if you push two magnets together sometimes they stick and sometimes they repel. As a photon travels it is vibrating back and forth between having a small electric field and a small magnetic field.
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