Let me rephrase the question – Do we call the Visible Spectrum that because that’s what we can see or is there something different about that part of electromagnetic spectrum (ES) that allow vision to occur. Alternately, If light is dual in nature, being both a wave and a particle, is that the same for other parts of the ES?
Which brings me to the question that I’m most curious about; would it be possible for a creature exist that can see, the same way we see, but using frequencies from other areas of the ES?
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The entire EM spectrum is technically light. The range we can see is “visible light” and there are creatures that see what we cannot such as infrared and ultraviolet
It would be possible (and there likely are) creatures that see entirely in a range inaccessible to us humans without special equipment, but I’m not sure what evolutionary benefit that would have.
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