JGWeissman comments on The Graviton as Aether - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 04 March 2010 11:09:09PM *  6 points [-]

Changes in electric fields induce magnetic fields. Changes in magnetic fields induce electric fields. If you combine the equations describing these effects, you get a wave equation. The wave described is light.

ETA: The section in the linked wikipedia article with the heading "In vacuum" has the equations in convenient form, and some links that look promising for describing this in more detail.