While I know that accelerating charges produces EM radiations (at least in lots of cases), most discussion about this matter only focuses on which kind of situation will emit EM radiations and which does not, with very little mention of the intuition behind this physical phenomenon.
Recently I'm trying to understand why accelerating mass generates gravitational wave (predicted by General Relativity), so I thought the first step is to understand it for charge first (they're very similar, after all), but surprisingly for the discussion I could find there isn't really any explanation about this matter.
While mathematics can prove accelerating charges sometimes radiates EM waves, I want an explanation using intuition that shows why this is true. Please don't use formulas to explain it.
Also, yes, I searched about the topic, and saw some mention of "conservation of energy" and "work done to the particle". But then, It still doesn't explain why the energy is lost in terms of EM radiation. Wikipedia said this kind of behavior has something to do with Special Relativity.
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