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The short answer is "No".

The long answer is as follows: "Light is a form of radiation, and defined as a number of photons. Each photon, when emitted, has a certain amount of energy. This is dictated by the amount of energy the particle has when it emits light. Higher levels of light require more energy to produce. Lower levels of energy produce light like microwaves or infra-red. Medium levels include visible light, ultraviolet and such. High levels, which require enormous amounts of energy, include things like X-rays and Gamma rays. Remember that there's no real difference between forms of light. Each category simply includes light with energy between one level and another (E.g Ultraviolet light exists between 10nm and 400nm). The number is arbitrary, however to a human there is still an important difference. So no, they aren't the same.

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