Re: Hidden Richness in Electromagnetism

From: Bohl (aharanovbohm_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: 18 Mar 2005 17:36:14 -0800

hhc314@yahoo.com wrote:
> In a nutshell, aren't all EM waves 'transverse'?
>
> Harry C.

Beats me. Well in medieval times, people don't know electromagnetic
waves (light) fill the air... so who knows.. perhaps other waves
fill the air too that is not EM transverse waves but its cousins
not yet detectable by present instruments.

Anyway. Let me just focus on the first paragraph. Can you show
what this means "whenever an EM wave starts to
form, both the transverse and longitudinal waves start to form.
However, the transverse wave has a function, which cancels the
longitudinal wave. So if that function persists, we get the
familiar EM wave. Now when we cancel the normal wave, we cancel
the component that had cancelled the LW (scalar wave). So we get
out a LW (scalar wave)".

What function is he talking about available in transverse wave
that cancel the longitudinal wave?

Bohl

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