Re: Hidden Richness in Electromagnetism

From: Bjoern Feuerbacher (feuerbac_at_thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:03:06 +0100

Bohl wrote:
> 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.

Yes, maybe. So what? Idle speculations are not physics.

> 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?

How are we supposed to know what the words of a crank are supposed
to mean?

Bye,
Bjoern

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