To: PatrickHenry
. . . described light as "a shimmering of ever-present vectors in empty space" . . . Vectors (and matrices) were ever-present in grad school and I never saw 'em shimmer.
To: LibWhacker
Vectors (and matrices) were ever-present in grad school and I never saw 'em shimmer Oh I don't know. Trying to imagine the electric and magnetic field vectors in a propagating electromagnetic wave makes my brain shimmer. And shimmer isn't a bad description of what those vectors would look like if you could slow them down, but not too much.
17 posted on
03/22/2005 3:58:57 PM PST by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: LibWhacker
. . . described light as "a shimmering of ever-present vectors in empty space" . . .
Vectors (and matrices) were ever-present in grad school and I never saw 'em shimmer.
Light is Jello?
34 posted on
03/22/2005 5:55:18 PM PST by
tet68
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