Recent content by Arnan

I know that anything casting a field obeys the inverse square law and that field lines are an abstract used to help us visualise the vectors on objects effected by the field. Why is it then that if I drop iron filings around a magnet they sort themselves into neat lines? I would expect that to...

You are telling me that the wave idea is the result of a mathematical formula that may be expressed as a wave rather than it being a literal wave shaped ribbon of energy moving through space? Note that I don't have a problem with your explanations, its just that it sounds like I am going to...

In answer the resolving power of the electron microscope is limited by the wavelength of an electron, however many nanometers, that in itself seems a bit odd to me considering that the electron is a sub atomic particle as far as I know and not EM radiation. Why atomic breakdown resulting in the...

yeah but you don't know how large Alderaan was, might have been slightly larger than earth.

OK so I'm familiar with the idea that EM radiation propagates through space in straight lines at a uniform speed, that of light. The idea that light moves in waves, that each wavelength carries a uniform energy and that the wavelength differs yet because the same speed is maintained each...