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In quantum mechanics, electromagnetism is mediated by the gauge boson known as the virtual photon.

In classical mechanics, it is a "light wave".

Somewhere where the two play reasonably well together, it is a "real photon".

EM energy has no "form", only models we apply to it. Saying it is like something big we have experience with, to convey some properties we recognize.

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