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Polarization

A water wave is a 3 dimensional thing.   dimension 1: amplitude.  Dimension 2: wavelength.  dimension  3: the crest & trough.    If a water wave were two dimensional we would not see it.  When a water wave is viewed we see lines proceeding at right angles to the amplitude and the wavelength. The crest of the wave is at right angles to it's amplitude and wavelength.  how would you polarize a water wave?   Perhaps the magnetic component is the same as a water waves crest and trough component.  So many aspects of reality are ignored.  When I look at a web page about water waves it shows me a cross section of the water wave and it even talks about the crest and trough as mearly the high and low point of the wave but what I really mean by crest and trough is the line that an artist would draw when depicting a wave.  Maybe the ridge of the wave is a better term.   Ridge and valley are its 3rd dimension and extends some arbitrary distance.  Actually if you throw a rock in

No Ether?

Sound waves differ from electromagnetic waves in many ways but what if in some crazy way they are the same thing?   A sound wave through a solid moves faster than through a gas which is what we are used to.  Since the molecules are much more tightly packed in a solid the collisions between molecules occur much more quickly and accurately.  If you strike a long piece of metal the sound wave propagates through the metal from one end to the other.  If you strike a large metal pipe that is very long from the top it will create a transverse wave that moves through the pipe much as a water wave on the ocean.  I'm not sure if it could be considered a sound wave that is traveling transversely.  Maybe there will be a sound wave separately from a transverse shock-wave.  However if they are the same thing then Imagine if you grab one end of the pipe and pull it.   How long does it take from the time you pull your end to the time that the other end moves?  Would it be the speed of light? It wo
I've watched a couple videos by UFO abductees who are asked to speak at conventions and they talk about smelling sulfer and they themselves claim these beings are not extra terrestrial necessarily but extra dimensional beings.  That they are more paranormal phenomena than scientific.   I think if there is an agenda it's to convince the world that these are physical events rather than psychological or just made up.   If you start bringing in religion then your basically saying these are not physical aliens which is what people their paying customers don't want to hear.  They want to hear that aliens are literal physical beings from Beta Reticuli.   The researchers themselves want to believe it also.  Everyone has an agenda though.  That's what christians are often afraid to look hard at the seeming contradictions of the Bible.  However if they are afraid to look at the seeming contradictions it's a result of lack of faith.  Everyone comes across evidence