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Is light visible?

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Taking "visible" to mean "can be detected by the human eye", the answer is that visible (or optical) light is visible to the human eye! All other types of light/electromagnetic radiation, such as infrared, ultraviolet, xray, or radio, are not detectable by the human eye.

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