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A photon is the unit in which light comes. A bundle of them is a "ray" of light. Light sources like a light bulb emit astronomical numbers of them every second they are on. Please keep an open mind when dealing with light. Light can appear to be a little "particle" (the photon) or it can appear to be a wave (as light is an electromagnetic wave). How it appears depends on the experiment we use to look at light. This is called particle-wave duality, and it is a fundamental quantum mechanical principle that will have to be taken into account even at the level of high school physics. It doesn't seem to make sense to some folks when they are first confronted with the idea, but roll with it. Keep reading and asking questions.

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