Together with the Lorentz
force formula (Chapter 4), they mathematically express all the basic laws
of electromagnetism The most important prediction to emerge from Maxwell’s equations
is the existence of electromagnetic waves, which are (coupled) time-
varying electric and magnetic fields that propagate in space The speed
of the waves,  according to these equations, turned out to be very close to
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the speed of light( 3 ×108 m/s), obtained from optical
measurements This led to the remarkable conclusion
that light is an electromagnetic wave