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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is there an experiment that shows the oscillation in the E field of light?
« on: 14/11/2022 09:32:25 »I like the idea @alancalverd and thank you for your time.Worth having a deep think about Alan’s suggestion. Light doesn’t have mass, so that’s not the source of any energy transfer. When looking at electrons you would expect the charge to be affected by an electric field, which would transfer energy and is certainly the origin of the photoelectric effect. Unless you can think of a better transfer mechanism.
You do seem to be establishing that light carries energy. I'm not sure if it tells me much about light being an oscillation in the E field. If you fired lumps of blu-tack (that's sticky clay stuff - but other brands are available) at a cup of tea so that they just stick to the cup, then you are transferring kinetic energy to the cup. That's got to give you a warm cup of tea eventually. I think that's how they do it at our local Cafe, it takes years and the cup is sticky. I'm fairly sure they don't use oscillating E field blu-tack, just the regular stuff.
I did wonder about experiments using the optical Mossbaur effect with polarised light. There seem to be some experiments out there, but you would have to go through them to decide whether they answer your question.
Note, just got a warning of another post while I’ve been writing. Similar thoughts from Alan