Not to worry, Kakalios says: in the same way that sound waves can be canceled by running other
waves out of synch with them, one could destroy intrinsic fields by canceling them out with others.
Not exact matches
Because the light leaking
out of the waveguide is all in
synch, the waveguide might be bent to form an antenna that emits light
wave with sculpted phase fronts, he says.
Another words, the ocean can indeed be very calm if the next incoming
wave arrives
out of phase (half a cycle or so), even if the preceding
wave was two feet in amplititude due to two
waves arriving in
synch (on time).