"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:04:19 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:26:52 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

It's not that complicated - light is particles, has mass and as a
result can be affected by gravity.

Speaking of which, perhaps you could explain to us how to derive the
absolute speed of light from Maxwell's wave equations. I find it
fascinating that the math to do that was in place so far in front of
Einstein's work and all of quantum physics.

Maxwell's experiments and combinations of the theories of Farady, Gaus
and Ampere indicated that EMF traveled fairly close to the speed of
light in a vacuum which led to the conclusion that light (actually
most forms of energy) was/is/can be a wave form and subject to general
EMF waveform laws.

I'm not a historical physicist, but I believe even Newton had some
ideas about the nature of light and posited that light was a particle
of some sort. And now that I think about it, wasn't it Fresnel's
experiments that proved that light held the form of a transverse wave?



If it wasn't then optical interference coatings wouldn't work and I would
have been out of a job.

Eisboch