On 1/11/2013 2:25 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Friday, January 11, 2013 4:45:39 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/11/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:What we call light is a visual experience. EM radiation below the visible range is felt as heat. This means that the entirety of the character of the EM is defined by the receiver-transmitter relation.That's Feynman-Wheeler emitter/absorber theory of EM radiation - they couldn't make it work and I doubt that you can either. You seem to be ignoring that there is already a unified theory of EM than includes light and it explains things like static electricity and electric motors as well as most light phenomena. And it does not explain photoelectric effect, the black body spectrum, and the stability of atoms - for which you need quantum electrodynamics.I'm not suggesting a literal emission/absorption across space. I say 'transmitter-receiver' in the figurative sense, as empathy or money are 'sent'. Static electricity and electric motors seen in the behavior of matter, not in a vacuum. There is no reason why all observed effects of EM would not be local to (sensory-motive) matter.
They can't all be local because that violates Lorentz invariance. But of course if you want to do it 'figuratively' you can do anything you want. Maybe you can write instructions on how to be a liberal metaphysician.
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