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I am curious what the electric and magnetic field's of light look like when time is stopped. A "photograph" or illustration/description of these fields at a moment in time is what I desire.

Also, does the picture change at various points in the wave?

I assume that this is like a "time exposure" of a light wave.

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Have a look at the graphic in Lubos Motl's answer to another electromagnetic question.

It shows a polarised plane wave propagating in time and you can take a time projection that answers your question. Unpolarised plane waves have all possible orientations in space.

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It's like a sine wave. If you plot a sine wave on graph paper, from 0 - 1. You can see it.

I've honestly seen no explanation, that I understood, that explained the exact the exact correlation, but, mathematically, it's a perfect fit.

Oh, you might want to use 'polar plot' graphing paper. It makes the mathematics trivial.

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