Polarizarea fotonilor si a undelor electromagnetice

When a light fascicle falls on the M mirror at Brewster angle, the reflected fascicle is linearly polarized. Using a second rotating mirror M’ the Malus law can be checked. If mirror M’ is rotated around the PP’ axe, the reflected P’S’ fascicle has a variable intensity with two minim and two maxim values. When the second fascicle falls as the first fascicle at the Brewster angle the S’P’ fascicle has a minimum value.

Figure 3. Polarization by reflection

The experiments with visible light and mirrors were made more then one century ago, starting with Brewster and repeated in a lot of laboratories.
To date some experiments were made in order to check the phenomena for IR, and the effect can be accepted as valid for UV and gamma rays. Related to this kind of experiment, it is worth to be reminded a paper from 1969: Rotatable polarizers for the near infra-red, R M Lambert et al, J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 2 799-801 doi: 10.1088/0022-3735/2/9/311.

Proposed experiment

For the proposed theory it is interested to check how this experiment works in microwaves or radio waves. It’s difficult to perform the experiment for long radio waves, but for microwave or terraherz domain, with wavelength of submillimeter or centimeter order it should not be insurmountable problems in repeating this kind of experiment.
In proposed theory there is a fundamental difference between electromagnetic waves and light.
For the beginning is necessary to highlight that the refractive index defined for light has no significance in case of microwave (by extension also to other radio waves).
It is worth to be reminded a study made by a team of Oklahoma University available at link: http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~johnson/Education/Juniorlab/Microwave/2003SP_MicrowaveOptics.ppt#27
In the experiment, the polarized microwaves reflected by a polyethylene foil are counted for different angle of incidence. They obtained maximum of reflection not for a single value of incidence angle but for more values. Their conclusion: We are unable to detect Brewster angle in proposed experiment.
The results obtained are without meaning in the frame of actual physics.
In proposed theory the refractive index is a characteristic of photons interaction with matter.
Electromagnetic wave interacts in a different way with matter. In case of electromagnetic waves, depending on the material, it is possible to have more then one maximum of reflection or to have no maxim at all.
Consequently, in a double mirror polarization device, using a microwave or a UHF radio source, when the second mirror is rotated, the intensity of microwave does not modify according to Malus law. It is possible for different angle to have more then expected maximum of reflected polarized microwave or to have no maximum and the conclusion is clear: radio wave does not follow the same rules like polarized photons (IR, VIS, UV etc) at reflection.
Using another method of polarization (absorption, scattering, birefringence) the same difference between light and electromagnetic waves should be obtained.
The experiment for UHF electromagnetic wave can be simplified a lot if instead of first polarizing mirror the effect of polarization due to specific antenna is used. The physical orientation of a wireless antenna corresponds to the polarization of the radio waves received or transmitted by that antenna. Thus, a vertical antenna receives and emits vertically polarized waves, and a horizontal antenna receives or emits horizontally polarized waves. For microwave a
Consequently for UHF, the polarized waves coming from a let’s say vertical antenna fall directly on a rotating mirror and according to actual interpretation at reflection should respect the Malus law. In reality the experiment leads to negative results in respect to this law, so again the supposition that light is an electromagnetic wave is baseless.

Figure 4. Simplified scheme for electromagnetic wave

The detailed corpuscular interpretation of light polarization is presented in forward book.
The detailed analysis of electromagnetic waves interaction with matter will be analyzed in a further book related to electricity.