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Originally Posted by Profpat  So light is a 3 dimensional transverse wave? |
When you study it deep enough, it certainly is___Matter/energy, ain't it...? Check out micro-waves, the longest wave, yet the least active, until excited. They cook our meat all the way through, from the inside out___How...? Go back to Huygens' original work on wave theory, for the most fundamental physics. Also check out Josiah Gibbs, the original inventor of vector math, used by Maxwell's em-wave theories and ideas, or Planck and
Bohr... Much has been exaggerated in recent literature... Carver Mead, at Intel, is the best modern source... He has a new book out, can't remember the name, but is about the wave theories of light and electricity, and the government gives him huge grants, to further his most advanced wave/particle ideas and experiments, and real physical advances, while still working for Intel...
Lloyd