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At 11:51 AM 11/14/01 -0500, Joseph Bellina wrote:reality
What I find most interesting about this discussion is the mix of
electromagnetism)claims and model claims. Are you voting on what is real (how would you
know) or what is the best model to use?
Before long this is going to turn into a discussion of what "is" is.
But why discuss light in particular? Is there really a question? I
thought that in all of physics, light (or more generally
was about as well-understood as anything could get. IIRC, calculationsmore
agree with experiment to something like 18 significant digits. What
could you possibly want?summary:
The opening pages of Jackson _Classical Electrodynamics_ gives a nice
discussion of when the classical approximation applies. Executive
most everyday situations are classical by a wide margin. And thewant?
full-blown quantum behavior is connected to the classical behavior by a
nice correspondence principle. Again: what more could you possibly
You can buy the T-shirt:
And God said
[maxwell equations]
and there was light.
If that's not good enough, please re-state the question.