Hi is light a kind of acceleration? (not velocity or momentum)

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Hi is light a kind of acceleration? (not velocity or momentum)
 
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No, light is wave in the electromagnetic field. Not only is it not "a kind of acceleration" (I have no idea what that could mean) it HAS no acceleration itself.
 
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