Recent content by DanFrederiksn

my confidence in your answers is not strengthened by your avoidance of simple questions

Dale, my knowledge of physics is still limited or I wouldn't have asked the question but I have a keen mind and a lot of experience with the dynamics of human psyche, what people know, what people think they know, how well they handle questions outside of prior considerations, how devoted they...

Dale, hang in there. not buying the first explanation is key to intelligent pursuit. don't see it as an insult. and apparently you aren't a physicist and the question I ask really require someone with very solid understanding of ED and QED. what kind of engineer are you? electronics? have you...

not to sound ungrateful, but that doesn't sound true either : ) although the link was inspiring, thank you. maybe it's a kind of standing wave with infinitely long wavelength. I have to think more about it tomorrow. do you have a degree in physics? or self taught

it doesn't matter if there is constructive interference elsewhere. the question is, what is at the location of destructive interference. it appears to be nothing but both components can survive and separate later. it may be one of quantum mechanics' curiosities but conventionally speaking it...

Dale, it doesn't sound to me like you really know enough to answer the question. you shouldn't pretend to know a subject. it's quite counter productive here. no offense. think about it

say you overlap two identical coherent light beams with a mirror but opposite phase so they effectively cancel each other out, with for instance a partially transparent mirror. what remains in the beam path then? or does such an arrangement mean that the interference forces everything to go the...