Explaining Electric and Magnetic Fields in EM Waves

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Hi, I've read that the speed of em waves in the vacuum is the electric field component frac the magnetic field component, why and how can this be explained more easily ?

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This is a result of the Maxwell equations, I found a description here.
 
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