What causes electric and magnetic fields to oscillate, making light?

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What causes electric and magnetic fields to oscillate, making light?

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Any changing electric field produces a magnetic field, and any changing magnetic field produces an electric field. In electromagnetic waves the electric field oscillates in a way that generates precisely such a oscillating magnetic field that generates the same electric field. So they kinda generate each other in a self-sustaining way.

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