Submitted by chriswhoppers t3_100sm7x in askscience
ChromaticDragon t1_j2jsotw wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can You Cavitate Radiation Away? by chriswhoppers
> space, which is something
I think this is the root of your trouble.
The easiest answer to your original question, I believe, is simply "no".
A deeper answer would be to redirect you towards learning the nature of EM radiation. Folk here are wrestling with this because it's hard to ascertain adequately the root(s) of your misconceptions.
To me, at least, it seems you're stuck in something akin to where people were more than a century ago where they were convinced light had to be a wave in some sort of medium which they dubbed the ether. You seem to be imagining "EM radiation" as some sort of disturbance in space whereby the space disturbance can be collapsed, ruptured, cavitated (whatever word you want). But our current understanding of EM radiation doesn't work like that... at all.
To better understand destructive interference of electromagnetic waves, you are going to need to fall back to learn about waves, in general. After you get used to constructive and destructive interference in waves of water in a pond, then you should wrestle with the medium-less nature of waves in the electric and magnetic fields.
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