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What is electromagnetic radiation and what is it composed of?

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At the classical level, the electromagnetic radiation is composed of electric and magnetic fields oscillating in a plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation. At the quantum level, radiation is quantized in the form of massless particles of spin 1: photons

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