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If photons are emitted/absorbed when an electron changes energy levels, how is it that light is constantly emitted?

In my college physics class we briefly talked about how photons are emitted when an electron loses energy by moving to a lower orbital. Similarly photons are absorbed when the electron gains energy and moves to a higher orbital.

OK, so how is it that atoms consistently generate light? Are electrons constantly gaining/losing energy, bouncing back and forth between orbitals?
gpt
Have you ever seen a single atom emit a photon? No, your eyes do not register single photons (meaning you can't see just one photon).

Generally you have a bunch of atoms that you heat up and they start glowing. Even though each excited atom emits at a random time, the average emission is a constant (if your excitation rate is constant).  What you see is an average of the randomly emitted light.