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... to explain exactly why there are black body radiators, and how
they radiate. After giving a typical txtbook answer, I tried to
think about what it is fundamentally. Blackbody radiation is EM
radiation, but what mechanism produces it, especially in objects a
low temperatures.
thinking of EM waves being generated by accelerating charges, or at
least charges changing states, but this doesn't seem to work in
general.