Originally Posted By: Paul

to me a electromagnetic wave should look more like this.





Absolutely spot on .... you absolutely have got it .. I am very impressed.

So now lets add the phase and group properties in the waveform is not uniform over time the other obvious problem with the original 3D drawing.

What we are trying to represent is this



So that ring changes intensity or diameter over time and can spin for the angular momentum.

This is the sort of best animation of a photon I can find sort of looking at it in 3D and even it has issues



Last edited by Orac; 04/03/14 02:41 AM.
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