[Physics] Reply to Art.

[Peter Jackson]

The gradual change from 90 degree phase shift you suggest ‘must’ happen isn’t evidenced as far as I’ve found except in specific circumstances in diffuse fields where it’s evidenced by birefringence (or to be precise multirefringence). But there is another option which is consistent with evidence. The whole change from near to far field, unexplained by Maxwell (or as the transform from from Fresnel to Fraunhoffer) Can happen far more abruptly and may be very important in advancing understanding generally. It has parallels in both Special Relativity (The ‘Lorentz transformation’) and Quantum Mechanics (the unexplained 90 degree phase shift in the sine curve pairs).
One simple mechanism, lets say at the surface of an antenna moving through a field or similarly a planet moving through a heliospheric rest frame (is that a dense ‘surface’ electron layer is propagated (as found in surface fine structure & shocks), which a field particle absorbs EM radiation and re-emits in it’s OWN LOCAL centre of mass rest frame. That gives a ‘Discrete Field’ model of local physics with physical transitions between. Now do what Maxwell recommends and use thought to find implications. Firstly Einstein’s final 1952 concept of inertial systems as ‘fields in motion within fields’ makes sense, then you should find all else falls into place. A bit shocking perhaps but if you do what Maxwell suggests it’ll work.
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