tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post80372729490349744..comments2024-03-04T15:09:00.479-08:00Comments on The Scientific Worldview: Velocity of Light: Part 1Glenn Borchardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-77282325688578102662011-08-14T21:24:45.559-07:002011-08-14T21:24:45.559-07:00Rich:
You are welcome, and also quite perceptive ...Rich:<br /><br />You are welcome, and also quite perceptive in realizing that light and electrical phenomena are really the same motion. Just think for a minute that a wire is a tube containing aether (most atoms are 99% "empty space" or "aether"). Wave motion through aether occurs at a velocity of c. Electricity, being a disturbance in the aether, thus travels at a velocity near c. The "near" part comes in because the presence of any matter other than aether has a tendency to interfere, slowing the motion down. That is why light travels at less than c in water, glass, quartz, the sun's corona, and many other areas of the universe diluted by other forms of matter.Glenn Borchardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-86398028748902555352011-08-14T20:47:27.707-07:002011-08-14T20:47:27.707-07:00Thanks for the tutorial on light and how we ought ...Thanks for the tutorial on light and how we ought to get back on track with what is physically going on with the propagation of light.<br /><br />Electricity is transmitted in wire but is considered to be a completely different phenomenon. In wires, such as twisted pair, the speed is pertty much a constant and, I think, a large fraction of c. Might not some of the same physical actions be at work? With coaxial cable for instance, the cable has a characteristic impedance distributed along its length. Is there anything already known about electrical disturbances traveling down a wire that we might be able to compare to how light is transmitted?<br />Just wondering,<br />Richard JeschRichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492786367551181284noreply@blogger.com