Comment II on ''Resonant and antiresonant frequency dependence of the effective parameters of metamaterials''

In a recent paper, Koshny, Markos, Smith, and Soukoulis [Phys. Rev E 68, 065602 (2003)] report that their computations show that the product of imaginary parts of electric permittivity and magnetic permeability in a passive media is negative. They also criticize a well-know theorem that both imaginary parts are positive as a result of the second law of thermodynamics. I argue that this criticism has no ground and that computational evidence may result from inadequate introduction of the very concept of epsilon(omega) and mu(omega) in a photonic crystal.