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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Not Snell's Law

If photon collapsing at the medium boundary is the cause of refraction,


where the torus photon collapses at the contact point C and the photons stack up to give a wave front spacing of λ.  Bearing in mind that,

2πaψ=λ

Consider the line segment OC,

λisin(θi)=OC=λrsin(θr)

and so,

sin(θi)sin(θr)=λiλr

And the beam does not change color, f is a constant,

sin(θi)sin(θr)=fλifλr=vivr

where λi measures the thickness of the torus and λr measures the diameter of the collapsed spherical photon.

Maybe...

But the details are not,


Also consider the line segment OC, and not considering the wave fronts of the incident and refracted waves,

λisin(θi)+acos(θi)=OC=λrtan(12θr)

λiλrsin(θi)+aλicos(θi)=1tan(12θr)

If we approximate  aλi1 (ie. torus with a small hole) and let 90oθic=θi,

λiλrsin(90oθic)+1cos(90oθic)=1tan(12θr)

λiλrcos(θic)+1sin(θic)=1tan(12θr)

λiλr=tan(12θic)tan(12θr)


Do we have a problem here?  Yes, this is not Snell's Law.