> You accept that the phase is not 180, but you don't accept that the 
> phase is 
> zero? 

Between the B and E fields? 
It's 90 degrees, or pi/2. 
E = -dB/dt  -- Faraday, taken by Maxwell into his own suite. 

 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/maxeq.html#c2 
 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/farlaw.html#c1 

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Androcles, forgetting the obvious
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/maxeq2.html#c3
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> "Bjoern Feuerbacher" <feuer...@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote in 
> message 
> news:cvie0n$sml$1@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de... 
>> And in fact, in an electromagnetic wave, the electric and 
>> magnetic field are *in phase*. They don't lag with respect 
>> to each other. 

> j 

IN FACT,  Feuerbacher is an uneducated fuckwit that cannot solve 
 Faraday's differential equation, or he wouldn't be saying anything 
 so stupid. 

Androcles.