Re: SR theory is simplistic

John Kennaugh <JKNG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Maxwell's formulation of electric and magnetic fields was
mathematically equivalent to the behaviour of incompressible fluids, yet
the waves in his electromagnetic field were transverse waves, of a type
which in the mechanical case require a solid substance to transmit them
and will not propagate in a fluid medium.

Transverse waves are observed upon the surface of lakes, every day.
Perhaps they are not 'of a type that requires a solid medium'.

Thus the medium involved,
which became known as the ether, was required to exhibit physical
properties which differed from moment to moment, according to whether
the field it was supporting was static or in motion. This gave rise to
much trouble.

It sure did. MMX killed that aether, dead.

In view of the intellectual triumph of Maxwell's work it
would indeed have been churlish to have raised such apparently
insignificant points as these at the time.

But the 'churlish points' were raised by MMX.

For physical waves as
normally understood are mechanical waves; they are waves in something -

And EM waves are NOT physical waves 'of a type' that seems to require a
very stiff solid medium, even though transverse physical waves (transverse
'sound' waves) have been observed in stiff physical media.

In fact, if EM waves do require a medium, that medium does not seem to have
ANY properties other than conducting EM waves. Perhaps the waves are
conducted by the virtual e-, e+ pairs that some theories say constitutes
the 'Dirac Sea' in which everything swims.



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