three sides of interference

[AntonioLao]

When two electromagnetic (EM) waves intersect either of two types of interference appears, constructive or destructive. However, this does not affect the speed of the waves. They both move on at the speed of light after the brief interlude.

Interference is a property of transverse EM waves which also does not affect the frequency or the wavelength of each wave at a crossroad with other waves except its intensity or energy contents. EM waves have three independent vector components. These are the electric vector, the magnetic vector, and the Poynting vector. Together they formed a local orthogonal coordinate system within each wave with the proviso that only the electric and magnetic vector can oscillate back and forth between the positive and negative quadrant. The Poynting vector stays in the same quadrant thru out the life of the wave.

The many different possible orientations of the electric and magnetic component allow the phenomena of polarization. Polarization can be linear, circular, or elliptical. Polarization affects the intensity of the wave, in other words, it changed the absolute magnitude of the Poynting vector. White light is randomly polarized. If two identical (monochromatic) waves are exactly out of phase when they interfere then the resulting absolute magnitude of the Poynting vector is zero and the waves seem to disappear at a specific orientation of the EM vectors. If the universe is made of two identical waves which are exactly out of phase then the universal Poynting vector is zero, no radiation can come out and consequently the waves are not detectable even though they exist right where they are. Two out of phase interfering waves becomes the origin of mass and the birth of a neutrino transforming the EM waves into standing, de Broglie matter waves. Half of this standing wave became the wave function of quantum mechanics as a solution to both Schrödinger and Dirac equation.

The phenomena of interference were first demonstrated by Young’s double slit experiments circa 1807, subsequently led to the invention of interferometers which were used by Michelson and Morley nullifying the existence of ether. Modern interferometers use the precision of coherent laser light.

[Guille]

Antonio, is there such phenomena as 'decontruction' that happens between waves (apart from those you mention of construction and destruction)?

The Poynting vector stays in the same quadrant thru out the life of the wave.

Do you mean that it's numbers are always positive? That it always stays with a direction towards the right top quadrant of the Cartesian plane?

And could we explain the strong nuclear force in relation you polarization? Maybe it seems absurd, but if the strong force is repulsive at certain distances, zero between other distance quantities, and attractive at another distances, then each of these three could cause or relate on each to a different form of polarization: linear, elliptical, and circular. Or is it nonsense?

[mkirkpatrick]

What if any do you think Antonio,if two electromagnetic waves from different
dimensions met,and their paths crossed so to speak!Would they cancel each other out,or would there be no effect at all,what do you think?



kindregards michael.

[AntonioLao]

is there such phenomena as 'decontruction'

Couldn't think of any analogy for EM waves. Maybe tidal waves? Or Earthquake's seismic waves? Or sound waves? Or any longitudinal waves?

Do you mean that it's numbers are always positive?

I meant the direction of radiation, the path of the light beam, it never changes its direction at midcourse and photon never go backward once its radiated forward.

And could we explain the strong nuclear force inr elation you polarization?

If the waves of the strong force is transversal then they can be polarized. It all boils down to a vector outer cross product of the components.

[AntonioLao]

Would they cancel each other out,or would there be no effect at all,what do you think?

I don't think they cancel. EM waves cannot destroy each but they can create standing waves or matter waves two photons can combine to form a pair of virtual lepton (electron and positron). Sometimes it takes 3 photons or more photons.

[dleviwing]

I don't think they cancel. EM waves cannot destroy each but they can create standing waves or matter waves two photons can combine to form a pair of virtual lepton (electron and positron). Sometimes it takes 3 photons or more photons.

Antonio;
This simply cannot be true. Please provide reference text to support this comment.

[AntonioLao]

reference text to support this comment

Hopefully these sites give some clarity
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/phys...sitronium.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_production

[dleviwing]

Thanks Antonio; I'm more accustom to viewing this as mass/energy conversations and visa versa rather than the creation of particles from photons.

PS: There is a theory out that proposes that the electron is the fundamental structure of all matter and the proton is a structure of electrons in different states.

[baudrunner]

The fundamental component/proponent of reality is persistence, or as we like to call it, Time. Hysteresis is that which provides the framework for Time's persistence, which is like saying that they are mutually dependent, or one and the same thing. In the same way that rubbing two surfaces together produces heat through friction, wave interference produces energy (E/c² = m). Wave intensity is not the same as wave amplitude. Loudness is not equal to intensity. It is possible for a single cycle of a wave of n cycles per second to occupy a length of x cm or 2x cm or 10x cm. The smaller the distance that is propagated by the single cycle of a wave, the greater the intensity of the wave (baudrunner's law of wave intensity). In three dimensional reality, waves can influence other waves from an infinite number of directions, and the sums of interfering waves possess unique properties. Polarity is identified as a function of the combination of the properties of the orientation of particles and the direction of their spin. The energy or power of a wave is proportional to its amplitude. A wave can have low power with strong intensity, or high power with weak intensity. Oscillation is produced by like polar repulsion, and this principle is applied in every electronic instrument ever designed, in the form of blocking oscillators, push-pull amplifiers, pulse generators etc etc. Any attempt through perception to limit the product of interfering waves analogically such that they can be "contained in the test tube", as it were, as in deBroglie matter waves, defeats what I would consider to be an extension of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and leads to an erroneous analogue of the description of reality. There is no finite state that exists within the dynamics of existence and therein lies a great paradox, for in isolation of the most fundamental particles so that they can be identified and described, whether physically or figuratively, it is necessary to separate them from the fabric of space-time, and that is impossible, since they are all integral to it. The ongoing process of creation has a beginning and an end, and the presence of it forever wanes, and this is the acellerating and damping process of hysteresis, as in our own evolution, until the end of our time.