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[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Just to point out, because it's bothering me way more than it should...

But the electric and magnetic peaks align with each other's valleys, not with each other's peaks.

[โ€“] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

If two waves of the same frequency align with each others' valleys, they align with each others' peaks. Do you mean they should be aligned peak to valley? I don't know how you're deciding which direction of the axes is positive and which is negative though.