Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Fundamentals First: Nature of Light

Fundamentals First: Fundamentals of: Nature of Light

by KRS Murthy
 
Here are many diagrams incorrectly depicting the wave – particle duality of the nature of light
 
All researchers, their experimental set up, their experimental results, diagrams and cartoons, all interpretations of the waveform of light is consistently incorrect.
 
 
Discussions by KRS Murthy
 
The researchers have consistently incorrectly understood and interpreted the wave nature of light in the form of electromagnetic waves as if the light travels like waves in water, in a pond or an ocean.
 
Let us use the word “ray or ray of light” to mean the electromagnetic wave form of light to represent the path the electromagnetic pulsations travel forward. The biggest confusion among most or many of the physicists, teachers of physics, including university professors, from the most reputed and celebrated universities to less well known universities, is in interpreting in pictures or cartoons and also in graphical forms. The very word “wave” seems to have created worldwide confusions and misunderstanding of the nature of light.
 
In graphical representations, in addition to the ocean wave like presentations, electric and magnetic field vectors are shown in graphical forms, with the two vectors perpendicular to each other, with that plane being perpendicular to the direction of light transmission.
 
Correct Interpretation by KRS Murthy:

Really, those two vectors should only mean to graphically represent the strength of the electric and magnetic fields. The fields are confined to a point, which is moving at the speed of light. The vectors should simply mean to represent the field pulsations for the electric and magnetic fields, as they are at the same time moving forward in the direction of light, again at the speed of light.
 
The perpendicularity of the two fields actually represents their mutual orthogonality; the two fields are not geometrically perpendicular to each other. The electric field is pulsating from zero to high (or its maximum) and back to zero, the magnetic field in temporal orthogonality is going from high (maximum) to zero. The two fields are centered on the same axis of the direction of the transmission of ray. Here the term “ray” only represents the direction of light traversal. The frequency of the pulsation of the electric and magnetic fields, in temporal orthogonality to each other, is the represented by the equation E = hf, where E is the energy of the ray of light, h is the Plank’s constant and f is the frequency of the pulsation of the electric and magnetic orthogonal pair. It is important to note that the magnetic field exists, and pulsates, only because the electric field also pulsates; one of them would not exist without the other; both can’t be static, but should pulsate for light to exist and travel. In fact, the light is only a perception in the human eye, and of those animals with eyes, and the respective brains, with the true reality being electric and magnetic field pulsations, similar to other much broader electromagnetic spectrum to cover from radio, micro, infrared, through visible light, X-rays and beyond. The wavelength of light is in the nanometer range. Here the wavelength is the distance travelled by the electric and magnetic field pulsations from zero to high and back to zero.
 
It is also important to understand and realize that varying or pulsating electric field generates a pulsating magnetic field mutually orthogonally, which is mutually cause and effect to each other. Simple variations in electric field creates magnetic field; orthogonally simple variations in magnetic field creates electric field. Periodic pulsations are not necessary. In light, and the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves, the pulsations are periodic, with a respective full spectrum of frequencies and associated wavelengths.
I have used the words “wave” and “electromagnetic wave form of light” in documents only and exclusively to mean my correct interpretation, NOT as to mean waves in an ocean or a pond.


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