Trust me—you really don’t know what you’re missing.
Jim in Hayward asked this question, and Bill replied that it is difficult to explain without understanding solid-state physics.
He did explain that inside a Light Emitting Diode, when electrons move across a junction (the place where two different semi-conductors meet) inside the diode, they give up photons, thus producing light.
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