Dear gravity jones:
> I was listening to this very concrete thinking elecrical
> engineer on the radio who seemed to believe that
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> The properties of wave behavior of light are curious.
Yes, very.
The correct description of "total internal reflection" requires
that light get information instantaneously from the less dense
medium.
Lenses for LEDs have to be a few hundred atoms thick to act like
classical lenses... otherwise the light just passes right through
at c, rather than c_medium.
Radio waves act much the same, passing though a lot of material
with little effect.
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> I have never mangaged to to aim a beam of light at an
> other beam of light and get any interference pattern
> save having some material interface in between.
This can be easily done with lasers. But keep in mind the
interference pattern will be on the scale of the wavelength.
> Have you got evidence of light bending or otherwise
> interacting with light in an open vacuum? I cant find any.
There are "photon-photon interaction"s documented on Google.
What is entanglement for photons, if not an interaction?
> how light saturates electrons is interesting and
> enough to blow off the other analogies.
No evidence this is true, however. "Extinction coefficient".
Phrases in quotes can be used to find out more using Google.
David A. Smith