Re: Double Slit & Aharonov Bohm Effect



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....  Objects going close to 'c' create a bow wave,and
this again is proven by the two slit experiment.      Bert



Bow-wave crap.  No medium.  None required for
interference between partial waves.

Come on now Old Man, your snippet about a *medium* leaves the impression that someone in the thread suggested or was even promoting a medium. Maybe this was your intent? I'd like to think that it was just a slip.


Think what you like. Old Man doesn't sneak. 

Then I held you correctly to higher standards:)

You
can't have a bow-wave without a medium.

You can't have a bow wave without a bow, but em waves require no medium.
If, OTOH, you see the em wave as just a relativistic retardation of the field of the charge, then the charge is its own bow, and bow waves in this context are a good analogy.

Where's
the medium ?


There isn't one.

Furthermore, if one claims necessity
for an Aether type medium, where's the bow-wave  ?

In that case it seems obvious that the wave is in the medium. Maybe you're attempting to state that the wave is empirically nonexistent, unaccountable for independently from its effects on charges, and thus the medium that was proposed to propagate it is also unaccounted for. I agree. In fact, I'll raise you ten; there simply are no em waves in a vacuum, not in reality, which is one good reason that they don't require a medium. They exist on paper only.

Richard Perry

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