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On Sunday, July 22, 2012 11:20:15 AM UTC-5, Szczepan Bialek wrote:
Is it proved?

Yes, proved to be pure fantasy. The Standard Model is as close to reality
as we have gotten so far. The modern-day atom smashers have proved just
how ignorant the speculations of the earlier physicists really were.

"8 Polarization 319" Could you look at this?

In my 4th edition, Chapter 8 starts on page 325. The first sentence says:
"... light may be treated as a transverse electromagnetic wave." Nowhere
does it say that light may be treated as a longitudinal wave.

"" In 1817, Young had proposed a small transverse component to light, while
yet retaining a far larger longitudinal component. Fresnel, by the year
1821, was able to show via mathematical methods that polarization could be
explained only if light was entirely transverse, with no longitudinal
vibration whatsoever.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel

As you see the Fresnel model is simpler than Young.
In the texbooks are only simple things.

The Authors MAY know that. So they wrote: "light may be treated". MAY
instead "Without of any doubts".
S*


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