Re: Redshift without expansion

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:34:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpeatmje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I once did read something like:
The changing electric field creates a magnetic field at 90 degrees, when
that magnetic field finally collapses (=changes) it creates an changing
electric field again, etc etc the wave rolls along....
Fun, do not know (was that Maxwell too?) who it was that wrote that.

You have your oscillating E (electric) field and your B (magnetic)
field (or H field depending on the system of notation you're using)
and the E vectors and B vectors are at right angles to each other.
You don't have one without the other, which is why they call it
electromagnetic radiation. The fields don't collapse, exactly, until
they interact with something, which is when quantum mechanics raises
its head.

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