Pictorial Veiw of Electromagnetism(Light)

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If magnetism has never been observed in the Unipolar state, in which the state would/should be observed somewhat the same as an electric point charge, why do us humans pertain to draw LIGHT as a symetrical combination of both....when it is quite clear through simple observation that one exists in space completely differently to the other.

(For those that don't know.... Light in Physics books is drawn somewhat similarly to a DNA strand, with E and M feild/waves traveling perpendicular to each other as sine quantities..... Quantities...yes the drawings are somewhat only representing the quantative quality of light... but it really actually confuses most physics studuents into thinking that that is what light looks like (especially when text books illustrate it in the 3d representation.)

...so what should light look like... or more accuratley...what does the concert of E/M feilds sitting the in pathe of least resistance (space/time) look like.

Yes, that dual planar sine wave pix is the standard model It is ultimately a poor one and will remain due to a consequence of Von Neuman's Catastrophe of the Infinite Regress.. .

While light is a fine medium for both real world observation, and for use in our mental (philosophical) models, when the item under observation, or being considered are very differently scaled in mass energyM it cannot be used to observe or represent itself!

That is to say that we cannot look at light with light. Our models are incomplete. If we really try to complete them they will become self referential and useless.

So that model is god as it gets until we have a better observational method.

god already has been modeled scientifically. -? the Matrix

Absatively. But we can see it (or imagine it) only in terms of itself. Thus the paradox arises.

Further, the wave/particle duality is unique to the region of the tiny (terms of mass energyL, and so physically unfamiliar to us in the macroscopic realm.

Tellya what though, a bicycle in motion gives a good example od just such duality.

Ahhh. But the initial question was about how we may visulize light; to which the nub of my gist is: "poorly."

*sigh*

This post was written as a floow up to my other posts...especially concerning the CD-ROM

--If magnetism (yes as a field) always exists as a by-product of an electric field....then wouldn't light's most rudimentary form be E only?

Trying to think beyond Newtonian concepts may help....

Einstein wasn't thinking on classical 'objectifiable' lines. It's what enabled him to think about 'What would happen if I were to ride a light beam'.

I am trying to highlight the same... would would happen if Light and space were the only atomic constructs of our reality.


PS... the photon is just a concept, just like the wave.... we don't actually see a round ball that turns into a beam and visa-versa... instead we 'feel' the force that light exerts on an object, therefore describing it as a Particle with weight. ...this is newtonian thought.

Well, no, the photon is a physical particle that has no mass. But the wave is a concept that helps us visualize it, determine its properties and the energy being transferred.

oh oh...were going to get into a debate here.

a photon (the concept) has mass... thats why it's a photon.

it's the wave which is massless, just like a sound wave , it's how we picture an ethereal transgression.

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