In researching my near field electromagnetic inertia concept (which MUST occur if near-field transmission is niot instantaneous) I found research that seems to indicate that until a photon detaches the near-field seems to propagate instantaneously.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0009/0009023.pdf http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0009/0009076.pdf note: The author claims that it cannot be used for transmitting information backwards in time, however this is easily shown to be false if SR take on reality were assumed to be true. John
