Re: wave and light

From: Harry Conover (hhc314_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: 19 Sep 2004 17:52:47 -0700

srp@microtec.net (Andr? Michaud) wrote in message news:<562f286c.0409191050.617349e6@posting.google.com>...
> zigoteau@yahoo.com (zigoteau) wrote in message news:<a836cacf.0409190500.6a7f8d83@posting.google.com>...
> > srp@microtec.net (Andr? Michaud) wrote in message news:<562f286c.0409181148.44b6bce2@posting.google.com>...
> >
> > Hi, André
> >
> > > > Of course EM waves exist. Light is an EM wave.
> > >
> > > To my knowledge, since Wien and Planck, we know that this is no so.
> >
> > I think you're arguing about definitions here and not about reality.
> > There is enough evidence out there to indicate that light involves
> > electric and magnetic fields, whatever the underlying physical basis
> > of such fields is.
>
> I would rather formulate this as
>
> There is enough evidence out there to indicate that light involves
> discrete particles having both electric and magnetic aspects, whatever
> the underlying physical basis of such aspects may be.

Then too, as a working physicist I would prefer to describe the
situation as light having a well defined electromagnetic wave
characteristic which in some specific instances display particle
(photon) like properties in those rare situations where they exhibit
particle like properties. (Example: The photo-electric effect.)

I had thought that this matter had been put to bed back around 1910 or
1920, but then I may have been mistaken.

Einstein himself believed that a study of the dual properties of light
could well occupy someone for a lifetime, so we'll be very receptive
to your illumination of this subject for us.

                                                      Harry C.

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