Cecil Moore wrote:
Jim Kelley wrote:

The problem with your paper, Cecil, is the part where you try to
invent the "4th Mechanism of Reflection".


I wish I had invented it, Jim, but the mechanism of wave
reflection due to interference was well known and under-
stood by optical engineers long before I was born. It's
how non-reflective glass works. Ideally, interference
at the thin-film coating reflects all of the light back
toward the picture behind the glass.

What has been known since long before you were born is that only
direct interaction with matter causes EM waves to reflect. You're far
too modest Cecil. The "4th mechanism of reflection" is completely
your idea! ;-)


73, Jim, AC6XG