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What is the medium through which radio waves travel?

Bill

On 25/05/2014 18:45, Bill Wright wrote:
What is the medium through which radio waves travel?

Bill


doris stokes?

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Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

Bill Wright wrote:

What is the medium through which radio waves travel?

There's maths that describes the behaviour of electromagnetic wave
propagation perfectly, from Maxwell's Wave Equations to Quantum Field
Theory. Ultimately, exactly _what_ is being described is still obscure.
We've got to the point where you need £6 billion, 27 km in circumference
experiments to get new ideas on how the universe is put together.

On Sun, 25 May 2014 18:45:53 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

What is the medium through which radio waves travel?

Bill


You want me to say ether and then give me Stephen Fry's klaxon for not
spelling it aether.

(Let's call the whole thing off).

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

I'm sorry, I'll write that again.

You want me to say ether and then give me Stephen Fry's klaxon for not
spelling it æther.

(Let's call the whole thing off).


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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Graham. wrote:

You want me to say ether and then give me Stephen Fry's klaxon for not
spelling it aether.

(Let's call the whole thing off).

Ya know, Einstein himself said that his own model of space could itself be
thought of as an aether, as it brought back the idea that empty space has
its own physical properties. i.e. it's not "nothing".

On Sun, 25 May 2014 20:04:35 +0100, Dave Farrance
wrote:

Graham. wrote:

You want me to say ether and then give me Stephen Fry's klaxon for not
spelling it aether.

(Let's call the whole thing off).

Ya know, Einstein himself said that his own model of space could itself be
thought of as an aether, as it brought back the idea that empty space has
its own physical properties. i.e. it's not "nothing".


Knew a thing or to, them philosophers.

--

Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Sun, 25 May 2014 20:17:47 +0100, Graham. wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2014 20:04:35 +0100, Dave Farrance
wrote:

Graham. wrote:

You want me to say ether and then give me Stephen Fry's klaxon for not
spelling it aether.

(Let's call the whole thing off).

Ya know, Einstein himself said that his own model of space could itself be
thought of as an aether, as it brought back the idea that empty space has
its own physical properties. i.e. it's not "nothing".


Knew a thing or to, them philosophers.


Seems to be my night for correcting myself.

Knew a thing or two, them philosophers. (Yes, I know).

--

Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Graham. wrote:
I'm sorry, I'll write that again.

You want me to say ether and then give me Stephen Fry's klaxon for not
spelling it æther.

(Let's call the whole thing off).


That's better.

Bill

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
What is the medium through which radio waves travel?

The Michaelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that there is none.
Various attempts to patch up the aether since have all been found
inconsistent with observation (e.g. entrained aether).

-- Richard