Gravitation and electromagnetic wave propagation with negative phase velocity

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mackay, Tom G ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b,c   Setiawan, Sandi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DENSITY; METRIC COMPONENTS; NEGATIVE-PHASE-VELOCITY (NPV); PLANE WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GRAVITATION; QUANTUM THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 23244437426     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/075     Document Type: Article

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