http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/ Wave Structure of Matter Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:02:48 GMT Steven Dufresne http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9006 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9006 Hi Geoff, This is the video that most does it for me re WSM:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6z2hLgYuY The hardest thing for me to understand re Milo's Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:34:47 GMT formgh@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9005 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9005 Hi everyone, Thanks for all the replies - one thing that seems certain - we have different views on how WSM works! I will reply in detail over the next week - Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:58:30 GMT Michael Harney http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9004 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9004 Geoff, Here is my take on your question: The waves are transverse - the first obvious evidence of this is that EM waves are transverse and EM waves (photons) Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:07:46 GMT Declan Traill http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9003 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9003 Hi Ray et al, Light is a transverse wave comprising the motion of scalar wave structures (charged particles). So in a sense light is a wave made up of smaller Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:51:55 GMT milo wolff http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9002 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9002 Ray, Important points. The world has believed Maxwell's Equations as 100% OK too long. There is work to be done there. Milo Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:51:46 GMT Ray Tomes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9001 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9001 ... Sorry that should be http://ray.tomes.biz/maths.html Ray Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:55:30 GMT Ray Tomes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9000 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/9000 Hi Geoff and Others OK, if we are agreed that we have a tensile medium, then there are both vector and scalar components to the waves. In the standard form Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:40:37 GMT Denys Lépinard http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8999 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8999 Hi every WSM Lovers, Every theory, whatsoever it is, needs to be rooted on postulates. The fewer the postulates, the better the theory. In the case of WSM as I Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:51:51 GMT Linick, Lawrence http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8998 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8998 Geoff - and others, I posed the transverse/longitudinal question many, many moons ago. In my model the WSM waves are definitively transverse. However, the Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:58:47 GMT Declan Traill http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8997 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8997 Hi All, Both wavelength and amplitude contribute to the energy of the wave, but they are not the same thing. One may increase without the other; however in Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:37:50 GMT formgh@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8996 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8996 Hi Ray, RT: When you have a wave source and a wave spreading out as a sphere from there, the amplitude will drop off with distance. The velocity is not going Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:37:35 GMT formgh@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8995 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8995 Hi Ray, I agree that space is a tensile wave medium (nearly rigid / slightly elastic). It is not a liquid or a gas which are both properties of matter. I agree Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:35:32 GMT Ray Tomes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8994 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8994 Hi Geoff ... E/M waves are known as transverse waves. They are polarized. They have been understood as transverse and therefore vector waves for >100 years. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:25:02 GMT Ray Tomes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8993 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8993 ... RT: It seems extremely unlikely. Read next comment first. ... RT: When you have a wave source and a wave spreading out as a sphere from there, the Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:57:04 GMT formgh@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8992 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wave-Structure-Matter/message/8992 Hi Ray, Thanks for reply. A few things; Is a change in velocity of waves with a change in wave amplitude necessarily non linear - or does it depend on how it