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A question about light.?

Is light from bulbs, the same as light from the sun?

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Well, not exactly. Light is both wave and particles. The wave is an EM wave and the particle is the photon. The photon is the same for all light, but the wave frequency differs. The sun emits all sorts of EM waves, x-rays, infrared, visible light, gamma ... You can also see visible light, and that what's the bulb emits. Some of the waves from the sun could be the same as those from the bulb. Frequency also changes according to color, I'll not go into the details, you could research those on a wiki.
Basically, yes. The colour (wavelength) from a bulb tends to be one colour, whereas the sun gives out lots of colours, but if you looked at one photon (particle of light) from a bulb you wouldn't be able to tell if it was from the sun or a bulb. If you looked at photons from the sun, some would definitely be the wrong wavelength for a bulb but they are still electromagnetic in nature.
Sunlight contain not only lights(EM) but also contain tiny cosmic or high energized particles(like muon) but bulbs not.
No. The light from the sun is a lot different.
hi ofcours, the light is from bulb as the chemical reactions that undergo in sun and the movement of particles are helps in energy transmission in form of light in the same way whatever the chemical reactions that carrying out in bulb helps in emission of energy through electorns in the form of light.

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