Re experimental verification of electromagnetic mass

From: jahn (suzysewnshow_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:28:52 +0000 (UTC)

"Cecil Moore" <w5dxp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41445f9a_5@corp.newsgroups.com...
> Guck wrote:
> > What bothers me is that old-fashioned idea of electricity being the
> > flow of electrons thru a wire from a negative terminal of EMF to the
> > positive terminal. Obviously electricity is a flow of energy, it
> > doesn't seem realisitic to imagine that actual physical electrons
> > travel thru the wire. It's like light-
> > light is carried by photons, light is carried by an energy
> > wave/particle
> > which has no mass , so it must be the same with electricity, because
> > electricity is supposed to be the same wave/particle composition as
> > light, simply at a different frequency or wavelength. Light and
> > electricty are both the same- they are both radiation energies.
> > So therefore electrons should not be considered as leptons or
> > fundamental particles because in electricity flow, the negative
> > charge component of the electron must be able to disassociate into a
> > "photon" type energy component which is what travels through the wire.
>
> The charge carriers are the free electrons traveling relatively slowly
> in the surface area of the wire. The RF photons are the wave-particles
> emitted by accelerated electrons and travel at the speed of light.
> A cloud of photons make up the RF EM fields surrounding the wire(s).
>
> Consider the energy in an ocean wave Vs the water molecule carriers.
> --
> cheers, Cecil
>
Indeed! The propagation delay is not a property of the metalic wire
but rather is determined by the dielectric properties of the dielectric
which surrounds the wire. This effect is expoloited in dielectric
antenna and distributed delay lines.
Kind regards,
Sue...

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