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- From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - BASS JEALOUS AND INSECURE-ABIAN VALIDATED
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 08:50:06 GMT
- References: <12-12-92> <abian.724200923@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> <Bz81F4.Lqt@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
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- In article <Bz81F4.Lqt@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >A similar problem exists for physicists who consider light to be a wave (or
- >a wave and something else too). Waving is something an entity does, not a
- >thing in itself.
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- In the case of light, the electrical and magnetical fields are "waving", so
- what's your problem?
-
- Anyway, it doesn't matter whether physicists call it "waves" or something
- else. What matters, are the equations that they use to describe the
- phenomenon in question.
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