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by snarfy 4250 days ago
With electromagnetism the energy fall off depends on the radius and the wavelength. If the wavelength is is greater than a certain amount of the radius (the Fraunhofer distance) then the energy fall off is a linear 1/r. This is called the near field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_and_far_field