On Sep 16, 5:15*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
wrote:
Why must there be an "it" through which TEM waves proagate? Why cannot
they propagate through nothingness?

Because the only thing that can propagate through
nothingness is nothing. That should be clear to
the most casual observer.
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73, Cecil *http://www.w5dxp.com

That would be true if the casual observer did not consider truly empty
space to be nothingness. I do. I do not believe that truly empty space
is "something" because to believe otherwise would be to assume that
nothingness only exists outside of our Universe... nothingness would
not "be" but we define it, so it "is". We know that TEMs can
propagate through truly empty space because TEM waves propagate
through space, some of which must be "empty" space and some of which
is "occupied". I agree that some locii of space, but not all, are
characterized by a wide variety of quantum particles, perhaps only
some of which actually occupy the space associated with them. Bottom
line is that such particles are not required for TEM waves to
propagate and they are not the aether.