Gene Fuller wrote:
If this is name-dropping poker, I'll see your Hecht and raise with J.D.
Jackson and Born & Wolf.

Please post any contradiction of Hecht by your sources. That argument
could get very interesting. To summarize: Constructive interference
energy must come from somewhere in the real world. You seem to disagree.
So where do you think constructive interference energy comes from?

But thanks for the education. After 40 years of obtaining multiple
degrees in physics followed by working R&D in the optics field ...

If you are omniscient, please prove it. If you are not omniscient and
still capable of learning, please admit it. The trouble with gurus is
that they sincerely believe that they know everything already and
therefore cannot possibly learn anything new. I'm still open to learning.
How about you?

... I guess I
still need to seek out some "real-world physicists" to figure out that
energy is indeed something to "worry about". I never would have imagined
such a thing!

That's a really strange thing to admit, Gene, since a very large percentage
of the physics community is dedicated to understanding where the energy
was, is, and will be - down to an almost infinitessimally small amount.
You definitely seem to be cast in the mold of the priests who put Galileo
under house arrest. Are you comfortable with that position?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp