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Old June 15th 12, 07:39 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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On Friday, June 15, 2012 2:44:39 AM UTC-5, Szczepan Bialek wrote:
Radio waves and light are the oscillatory flow of electrons (L. Lorenz
1869).


Lorenz (and all other physicists and mathematicians) were obviously ignorant of photons in those days. Here is what a more knowledgeable physicist has said more than a century later:

Quoted from: "The Strange Theory of Light and Matter", (c)1985, by Richard P. Feynman

"So now, I present to you the three basic actions, from which all the phenomena of light and electrons arise:

-Action #1: A photon goes from place to place.
-Action #2: An electron goes from place to place.
-Action #3: An electron emits or absorbs a photon."

When Feynman says "light", he is including RF. Photons travel at the speed of light in the medium which is impossible for electrons which possess rest mass. There are no electrons in a pure vacuum, yet light and radio waves pass through it at the speed of light with no problem.

Following your "logic", why go back to 1869? Why not question the periodic table of elements because a few millennia ago, men of science asserted that there are four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. So why not adopt the four element argument as well?
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