Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter.

Among them were Michael Faraday who developed several laws of electromagnetism; James Clerk Maxwell who was responsible for the theory of electromagnetic radiation; Heinrich Herzt who proved the ...

This is possible because light is really waves of electricity and magnetism, a realization first made by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell ... When an electromagnetic wave encounters a ...