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Electric field or magnetic field can independently exist In nature, but in electromagnetic waves, neither electric field or magnetic field can exist independently. Why?

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The electric field or magnetic field, that does not vary with time, can exist independently. But fields, varying with time, cannot exist independently. Because during progression, the two fields continually create each other. As varying electric and magnetic fields generate electromagnetic waves, none of the two fields of an electromagnetic wave can exist independently.
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