Re: O'Barr 27 Nov 2004: Reasons for an ether.

From: Androcles (dummy_at_dummy.net)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:23:11 GMT

"jahn" <susysewnshow@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Androcles" <dummy@dummy.net> wrote in message
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> A: That's why you can't get away with an inverse square law.
>
> I think you meant cubed from you PoV. Anyway
> we are on the same page.
>
> Trouble shooting PDE's that I barely understand
> isn't my idea of how one should spend a sunny day
> but the plots at:
> http://www.ee.psu.edu/grimes/antennas/oldbreakthrough.htm
> gave me an idea.
>
> Is is possible that the rotating nulls of CP have
> mislead theorists to assume E/H far-field is
> 50/50 ?

Anything is possible in this game, since the jury is still out.
I doubt it is worth answering every single point anyone makes.

>
> If you identify the H component only as something
> 90 degress to the E component then you will always
> get a 50/50 ratio for CP.
>
> Further, some literature I read recently was making
> some kind of case for predominate E plane propagation
> at lower (sub visible ? ) frequencies. There is no
> mechanism in free space to cause such an effect but
> the fact that visible light is usually a CP atomic emission
> might create the illusion for someone without the time domain
> modeling capability.
>
> Further still, It is puzzling why a bright chap like
> Feynman, given his disdain for "duality" wouldn't
> simply latch right on to the concept of E plane
> only in the far vacuum field. It is the ideal mechanism
> for his sum over histories. What was he considering
> that would disuade him from offering a mechanism
> he surely had insight to ?
>
Like I said, I want simplicity first. Ya need square up stone
blocks before ya can build an ediface with gargoyles on top.

All that complicated stuff you keep talking about is too hard for
teaching. Sometimes ya gotta realize a forest is nothing but trees.

Androcles

> Sue...
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