Are Electromagnetic Waves Real?
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The article questions the reality of electromagnetic waves, sparking a discussion on the nature of physical phenomena and our understanding of them.
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3 months ago
1 replyno, we've just been hallucinating the internet this whole time
eesmith
3 months ago
This concerned Hertz's experimental verification of Maxwell's work, in the 1880s.
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