Submitted by Ethan-Wakefield t3_1198h4o in askscience
JohnnyCanuck t1_j9nem4p wrote
Reply to comment by Ethan-Wakefield in What does it mean for light to be an excitation in the electromagnetic field? by Ethan-Wakefield
Yeah it’s difficult or impossible to have an intuitive sense of this. This might help though:
Electricity and magnetism are fundamentally linked to each other. They are not exactly the same but they work in similar ways.
A radio antenna works by accelerating the electrons in the metal back and forth. You could theoretically make a radio signal by doing the same with a magnet, but it would be much, much harder since you would have to move the whole mass of the magnet back and forth, not just some of the electrons.
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