Details of Lightwaves

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by kcody</i>
<br />Should I believe that?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">It has been standard physics for nearly a century now.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Assuming the claim is correct, does that not imply that each phenomenon serves as a kind of restoring force for the other?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Possibly, but not necessarily. In fact, the whole physical model (the nature of the relation to electromagnetism) may still be wrong. But it is standard physics until something better comes along and becomes accepted. -|Tom|-

It's often illustrated like this:

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ethel.as.arizona.edu/~collins/astro/subjects/electromag7.html

I'm not sure if a single "photon" would be one complete set of waves, or several traveling in a single "packet".

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by DAVID</i>
<br />I'm not sure if a single "photon" would be one complete set of waves, or several traveling in a single "packet".
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I thought a photon was a particle emitted locally when the wave strikes ordinary subatomic parts.

- Kevin

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by DAVID</i>
ethel.as.arizona.edu/~collins/astro/subjects/electromag7.html

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That illustration shows the separate electric and magnetic components -in- phase. The text and my earlier post said 90 degrees out of phase.

Which is it?

In phase suggests two aspects of the same transverse harmonic motion, and 90 degrees out of phase suggests either circular harmonic motion, or two separate and balanced forces.

- Kevin

I gave up on this a while back because the two slit experiment makes the details of the photon unclear. The matter may never be known and that is because the photon is too small.