Gene Fuller wrote:
You got it right. There is no "inside" to a plane. There is also nothing
that happens exactly in that "plane".
Conceptually, it happens exactly *at* that plane. For
instance, in the following example, a plane is drawn
through the connection points which can be made as
physically small as needed - certainly small enough that
nothing needs to be hidden inside a black box in order
to obfuscate the technical facts.
Plane
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-----Z01-----+-----Z02-----
-----Z01-----+-----Z02-----
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This is an example of a primitive one-dimensional
interferometer.
What do you suppose your ol' pal Occam would say about a model that
requires waves to be created and then immediately canceled?
He would ask you: "How can waves be canceled if they don't
exist in the first place? If they don't exist in the first
place, why are anti-reflective thin-film coatings ever
required?"
Optical physicists go to great lengths with expensive
interferometer equipment to cause the steady-state
creation and immediate cancellation of wavefronts.
It happens all the time as in the following example.
The following web page describes an interferometer that
creates wavefronts only to have them immediately canceled
at the standard output. It even captures the energy reflected
from those canceled wavefronts and routes it to the non-standard
output.
http://www.teachspin.com/instruments...eriments.shtml
"Using Dielectric Beamsplitters to find the "missing energy"
in destructive interference"
"Where is the energy of the light going in an interferometer
adjusted for destructive interference? Below is a schematic
diagram showing a way to detect the non-standard output of a
Michelson interferometer—the *light heading back* toward the
laser source. ... Quantitative detection demonstrates that the
standard and non-standard outputs of the interferometer are
complementary. That is, when interference is destructive at
the standard output, it is constructive at the non-standard
output."
What is it about interferometers that you don't understand?
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73, Cecil
http://www.w5dxp.com