The Bicycle Analogy for Nature Light by KRS Murthy

The Bicycle Analogy for Nature Light by KRS Murthy

Caution about Analogy of a concept to the Main Concept

Before I give an analogy, let me emphasize that analogies are meant only to drive home a point. The analogical relationship should not be over extended in any sense. Analogy relationship to the main concept or subject of discuss is NOT elastic.

Just to give an analogy, think of a bicycle. When one of the peddle goes up the opposite peddle goes down, and vice versa. The feet peddling also follow this relationship. The electric and magnetic fields have similar relationship. As both peddles continue in this temporally orthogonal relationship, the bicycle move forward or back word. Analogically, the light transmission with temporally orthogonal relationship between the electric and magnetic fields behave, and the light pulsations, together a ray of light, move in the direction of the ray of light.