No Negatives in Physical Electronic Circuits & Physics Itself
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | No Negatives in Physical Electronic Circuits & Physics Itself |
| Author(s) | Bob de Hilster |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-10-08 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | particle model, electronics, mathematics |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"No Negatives in Physical Electronic Circuits & Physics Itself" is an article by Bob de Hilster published on 8 October 2019 on Beyond Mainstream. It is marked by the author as work in progress.
Writing as an electrical engineer who spent a career designing circuit boards, de Hilster argues that there are no negative numbers in physics — only directions. A sine wave describing an electromagnetic wave takes negative values in half of each cycle, but nothing in the physical picture is negative: there is an up amplitude and a down amplitude, each with a magnitude. He develops the point through his Particle Model treatment of light.