So sound is a wave and is basically just vibrations, an atom vibrates causing another next to it vibrate and so on until it finally reaches our ears to become sound.
If that's normally how waves behaves, what about light? I understand it's also a particle but something must have caused its starting point to influence its next point in space thereby allowing it to travel through space. what is the cause and effect relationship that allows light to propagate through space? I ruled out matter because most visible light is blocked by matter.