Electromagnetic Waves in the Field Medium

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Start with the field alone

Begin again with the same field.

FM is continuous, present everywhere, and capable of organizing motion.
Nothing is charged yet.
Nothing radiates.

There is only a medium capable of sustaining resonant structure.

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What an electromagnetic wave is not

In FM, an electromagnetic wave is not:

• a particle traveling through space

• a packet being emitted and absorbed

• a disturbance moving inside the field

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There is nothing separate being launched.

An electromagnetic wave is the field itself organizing in a specific, repeating way.

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The essential feature: transverse reorganization

An electromagnetic wave is a transverse resonant process.

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This means:

• the field reorganizes sideways relative to the direction of propagation

• no material transport occurs

• no vortex is carried forward

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Each local region of the field:

• completes a resonant cycle

• hands coherence to the next region

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The wave exists only as long as this handoff remains coherent.

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Propagation without transport

Nothing moves forward as an object.

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Instead:

• the field locally completes a cycle

• that cycle conditions the next local completion

• coherence propagates

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This is why electromagnetic waves:

• carry energy

• carry momentum

• carry information

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without transporting matter.

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Why electromagnetic waves always move at one speed

An electromagnetic wave is a pure field process.

It has no internal structure that must be maintained separately.

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All available process capacity is used to:

• close resonant cycles

• maintain phase coherence

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Because of this:

Electromagnetic waves propagate at the field’s maximum process rate.

They cannot go faster.
They cannot go slower.

Any deviation would prevent coherent cycle closure.

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Frequency and wavelength revisited

Frequency counts how often the field completes a transverse cycle.

Wavelength is the spatial separation required for that cycle to close coherently.

They are linked by resonance, not by kinematics.

Changing frequency does not change speed.

It changes how space is rhythmically organized by the field.

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Energy and intensity

Energy in an electromagnetic wave is not stored in a traveling object.

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It is stored in:

• the amplitude of field reorganization

• the strength of transverse strain

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Higher intensity means:

• stronger local reorganization

• more field work per cycle

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Not higher speed.

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Interaction with matter

When an electromagnetic wave encounters structured regions of the field
(vortices, atoms, matter):

• coherence may be absorbed

• re-routed

• re-emitted

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Nothing “hits” anything.

Field organization couples to field organization.

This is why interaction probabilities depend on structure and resonance,
not collision geometry.

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Emission without particles

Emission occurs when a structured region of the field:

• cannot maintain its internal configuration

• reorganizes

• sheds coherence into the surrounding field

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This shed coherence propagates as an electromagnetic wave.

No object is launched.

A resonant process is initiated.

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Absorption without impact

Absorption occurs when a propagating coherent pattern:

• matches local resonance conditions

• transfers its organization into local structure

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The wave does not disappear.

Its coherence is reorganized.

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Polarization as geometric preference

Polarization describes how the transverse reorganization is oriented.

It is not an added property.

It is the geometric character of the resonant cycle itself.

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Why vacuum is not empty

Electromagnetic waves do not require matter.

They require only a field capable of resonance.

The fact that light propagates across vast distances
is not evidence of emptiness.

It is evidence that the medium exists and supports coherence.

Summary

In the Field Medium Model:

• Electromagnetic waves are resonant transverse field processes

• Nothing is emitted or transported

• Coherence propagates through local cycle closure

• Speed is fixed by maximum process rate

• Energy is stored in field reorganization

• Interaction is field-to-field coupling

Light does not move through space.

Light is space organizing itself coherently.