What is gravity, the electric and magnetic fields?

[webolife]

I'll buy Steven's description without the qualifier of "particles".
And yes, Alton, propagation certainly infers movement. Which is why I do not say light is propagated.
Electrons, or whatever, move at the centroid of the system, changing the potential [field] of that system. I, at a peripheral location in the system, notice the potential change. That's light.

[Solar]

I'll buy Steven's description without the qualifier of "particles".
And yes, Alton, propagation certainly infers movement. Which is why I do not say light is propagated.
Electrons, or whatever, move at the centroid of the system, changing the potential [field] of that system. I, at a peripheral location in the system, notice the potential change. That's light.

That is very close to Aetherometry. Photons are not considered as having traveled "across" the length of space but are the production of an "energy swing" via interaction with mass-bound electrons of a "stimulus". The "stimulus" for local photon production is what is 'transmitted through the substantial nature of space', what you would probably refer to as the "Tempic Field", via a longitudinal electric "excitation wave". Which makes the following very interesting:

Neutrino oscillations observed at Kamiokande support the conclusion that neutrinos have mass. But Kamiokande cannot distinguish between Dirac vs Majorana type neutrinos. There is an interesting possibility that neutrinos can be superluminal Majorana particles that are faster than light. They naturally arrive before the onset of the photons from a supernova explosion. We present the quantum field theory of such a family of superluminal Majorana neutrinos, and show how the superluminal mass arises from a vacuum condensate of a pair of massless neutrinos. - Quantum Field Theory of Superluminal Majorana Neutrinos

A rose by any other name doth smell as sweet.

[junglelord]

Thats so funny Solar, as I came to the same conclusion yesterday as I thought about this matter of Light being instant.