On 01/28/2010 09:03 PM, Chris Zell wrote: > Perhaps y'all could enlighten me. I never understood the blanket > rejection of 'ether' when radiation resistance is an engineering fact. > > In the design of RF antennas, there is a radiation resistance of about > 328 ohms. Clearly, something out there is 'resisting' the emission of > RF. In addition, there is also permitivity in a vacuum. Is this a case > of 'if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck'....?
Suppose you switch to CGS units. What happens to the permitivity of the vacuum?
