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Please help clear some confusion of mine.
Assuming that light is just an electromagnetic loop (correct me if I'm wrong :tongue2: ), where a changing electric field induces a magnetic field and vice-versa, by what process then is a photon generated?
I was thinking that since photons are emitted whenever an electron jumps to a lower energy orbit, that this jump probably initiates this loop which seems reasonable, seeing as the jump might create a small magnetic field (?), but how does it come to enter a loop?
Assuming that light is just an electromagnetic loop (correct me if I'm wrong :tongue2: ), where a changing electric field induces a magnetic field and vice-versa, by what process then is a photon generated?
I was thinking that since photons are emitted whenever an electron jumps to a lower energy orbit, that this jump probably initiates this loop which seems reasonable, seeing as the jump might create a small magnetic field (?), but how does it come to enter a loop?