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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 02:51:30 2020 No.12352424 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12352430 >>12352439 >>12352482

what are light waves propagating through? I get that they are waves, that makes sense, but waves of what?

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 02:53:43 No.12352430 Report

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>>12352424
Waves of potential in the electromagnetic field

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 02:56:52 No.12352439 Report

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>>12352424
its electromagnetic radiation, waves from coupled electric and magnetic fields.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:01:05 No.12352454 Report

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>>12352439
Why are they transverse and longitudinal? I thought they were just transverse.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:05:20 No.12352476 Report

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Aether

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:05:27 No.12352478 Report

Quoted By: >>12352502 >>12352568

>>12352454
thats not longitudial, both are transveral. there is no medium.
and the electric field is perpendicular to the magnetic field.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:06:34 No.12352482 Report

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>>12352424
waves of electric and magnetic fields

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:10:32 No.12352502 Report

Quoted By: >>12352523 >>12352531

>>12352478
How the hell are they perpendicular? The electric field and the magnetic field across the universe fill a 3d volume in a universe that doesn't have any extra dimensions for them to be perpendicular to each other in. They occupy every point

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:13:40 No.12352521 Report

Quoted By: >>12352539 >>12352554 >>12352556

>>12352439
yes nice but what is it propagating through?

>>12352430
and what, physically, is the electromagnetic field?

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:14:41 No.12352523 Report

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>>12352502
>doesn't have any extra dimensions for them to be perpendicular to each other in
>he actually believes there's no 4th spatial dimension

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:15:35 No.12352531 Report

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>>12352502
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_field
not an EE.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:17:16 No.12352539 Report

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>>12352521
space-time

cant say that. what is gravitational field?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:20:19 No.12352554 Report

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>>12352521
electromagnetic waves are ripples in the spacetime manifold, which is a fancy way of saying that empty space is a liquid.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:20:24 No.12352556 Report

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>>12352521
The force on a test charge at a point divided by the test charge

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:23:57 No.12352568 Report

Quoted By: >>12352580

>>12352478
>and the electric field is perpendicular to the magnetic field
for plane waves, not in general

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Anonymous Tue 17 Nov 2020 03:26:19 No.12352580 Report

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>>12352568
like I said, thats off my field of work.
I do not know more details.

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