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So my question is: why alternating current produces electromagnetic waves?

There are plenty of answers on google that state it as fact, but none answer why. I mean what is it about accelerating electrons that generate EM wave? Are the theories for it? Is there lazy explanation?

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    There are mathematical theories called quantum mechanical theories for electrons etc, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics of how electrons emit the photons that build up light. – anna v Mar 11 '19 at 15:51
  • @annav Thank you so much! I will definitely read it. I wonder if I can avoid thinking about light since it behave both as particle and wave. Is is possible to think about EM purely in terms of waves and not particles? – user1700890 Mar 11 '19 at 15:56
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    Possible duplicate of How and why do accelerating charges radiate electromagnetic radiation? – sammy gerbil Mar 11 '19 at 16:13
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    There is classical electromagnetic theory, maxwells equations, that models the wave nture of light. Light emerges from the underlying quantum mechanical framework of photons, elementary particles with a quantum mechanical wave function which gives probabilities of locating the photons. Look here to see how the classical wave interference emerges from summing single photons. https://www.sps.ch/en/articles/progresses/wave-particle-duality-of-light-for-the-classroom-13/ – anna v Mar 11 '19 at 16:53
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    the explanation in the main answer of the proposed duplicate is in the classical electrodynamics frame work : "charges" not electrons, which are in the quantum regime. – anna v Mar 11 '19 at 17:31

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