Propagation of Light

why not?

Light exhibits properties of waves such as reflection, diffraction, diffusion and superposition that would not be explainable by a "spiral".

However, light waves have electrical and magnetic components which are plotted on separate axis, and they are always in phase. So, if you were to plot a particle in these two dimensions that followed both waves, it would follow a spiral. Interesting. I don't know if that has any significance, though...

Stuh is right.

If you look at light as an electromagnetic property in three dimensions it acts like a quadrupole. A quadrupole does not exhibit phase shifting in three dimensions as would a spiral.

Some Mass Spectrometers use this quadrupole property by generating magnetic quadrapoles and explioting the dipoles of elemental molecular orbitals.

In addition gravity waves are modeled as quadrupoles.

Rap

spiral propagation
I am admittedly not a physicist and value your input greatly. But if we could entertain the possibility, even for a moment, that spiral propagation is a possibility, could it be a type of propagation that has no real world (or macroscopic) equivalent?

Would there be a diameter of angular displacement (travel)? Could we consider angular velocity? What happens to our model of polarization? Is it something that cannot be verified experimentally (Heisenberg paradox)?

I am not sure what you mean...a quadrupole is a configuration of charge, but how exactly does light "act" as a quadrupole?

In fact...I am not clear on the whole wave/particle problem on the first place. Why can't we say that light is an EM wave which is composed of photon particles?

It seems that we are always told, "it sometimes acts like a particle, and sometimes acts like a wave," what experiments lead us to believe that they aren't the same thing?

I found something that may have answered the question of spiral propagation at http://www.maticweb.com/eng/.

I doubt any of us are qualified to assess the legitimacy of new theories like this, although they are always attractive and thought provoking.