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When atoms are heated they vibrate, and vibrating electrons will give off light particles, also known as photons. This is a side effect of the electromagnetic force. Every electron has an electric charge and therefore generates an electromagnetic force field which extends very far out in space (technically, it extends itself at the speed of light for as long as that electron has existed). So when an electron vibrates, its associated force field also vibrates, and the resulting forces that are transmitted along that force field are equivalent to a particle of light. Waves and particles are not separate phenomena at the sub-atomic level, they are just two ways of looking at the same thing (sometimes called wavicles).

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