Mark- The first paper at phys.org seems to describe an energy wave or something that is not light. I wonder how they determined it was electromagnetic like a light wave we know about? I wonder, if Maxwell's theory can address such an electromagnet phenomena? The researchers seem to omit the basic parameter of spin as being a basic parameter like energy, momentum and angular momentum. In other words some parameter that involves the Pauli Exclusion Principle of particles.
Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Jurich To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:FYI: Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves Mark Iverson wrote: | Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves | http://phys.org/news/2014-03-extraordinary-momentum-evanescent.html | Paper Ref: | http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140306/ncomms4300/full/ncomms4300.html FYI: arXiv Preprint: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1308/1308.0547.pdf (arXiv Abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0547) - Mark Jurich