On Feb 5, 9:03*am, "Szczepan Bialek" wrote:
Uzytkownik "Richard Clark" napisal w wiadomoscinews:u89pk6h54h100lo96fs2h8mjog6fhfdean@ 4ax.com...

On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:17:00 -0800 (PST), K1TTT wrote:

i thought that rather than going to wikipedia or somewhere else it was
more appropriate to quote from the maxwell bio on the same website
mr.B used to get his quote.

This only works for a rational discussion.

S* is only interested in pursuing agitprop, the failure of a decandent
counter-cultural ideology.
You wrote: "Yes, indeed it does matter who is "writing history." *The

quotation
above is, in fact, quite wrong."

So the best approach is to take a glance into the original papers.
In Maxwell's model the magnetic lines are like the smoke rings. Nothing flow
along them.
In Heaviside's model there is the solenoidal flow.

It is not simplification. The both models are quite different.

But the both are a history.

Your radio waves travel in rare plasma. It is interesting that Faraday
predicted it.
S*

they may travel through a rare plasma, but the rare plasma is not
needed for their propagation. they also travel through dense matter
like glass, but the glass is not needed for their propagation.