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Photons are EM fields -- self-propagating ones, like a glider in the Game of Life. The electric field changes, creating a magnetic field, but the magnetic field changes, creating an electric field. Use sines for the functions and you can see how the function just keeps re-appearing.

Now, combine that with the superposition principle ... photons pass through one another under most circumstances because of this (unlike gliders).