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Addendum: Everything that the FCC (and its counterparts in foreign countries) regulate -- are waves that are Hertzian in nature. These types of waves follow t
by peter_d_sherman 6y ago
Addendum:
Everything that the FCC (and its counterparts in foreign countries) regulate -- are waves that are Hertzian in nature.
These types of waves follow the Inverse-square Law:(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law), that is, they drop off inversely proportional to the square of distance.
It's a good thing that they do, too, because otherwise everyone's radio transmitter of whatever type (cell phone, garage door opener, TV remote, Wi-Fi, etc.), would interfere with everyone else's -- and this doesn't happen.
Nature, via the Inverse-square Law -- prevents this for the most part...
But, while Hertzian waves are used by most of the devices we know and love, in Physics, there are also Non-Hertzian waves (scalar, transverse, longitudinal, etc.).
These require special equipment and engineering to both create and detect (compare to Gravitational Waves, LIGO, etc.), and they might be highly directional in nature (that is, if you're not in a very tight path, you cannot detect them, but that's a good thing, because it also means that they don't interfere with all of the radio devices that we know and love!)
You see, there is nothing in Physics that (with the right engineering) that prevents the transmission or reception of information on non-Hertzian waves, on any number of mediums.
Sunlight, the earth's magnetic field, radiation from space, and many other mediums -- could in theory be used to send and receive information... even Gravity itself could be, in theory, if it is a wave, and if it were properly understood...
Also, Quantum Communication -- the idea that you take a crystal (or some other medium), and split it in half, and (again, with the right engineering) now can communicate over large distances without an apparent medium between them -- this idea is Non-Hertzian in nature.
ESP, if it exists -- is Non-Hertzian in nature.
Non-Hertzian communications are the future (basically it's Star Trek technology).
Hertzian (which the FCC and its counterparts in foreign countries regulate and can regulate) is the present-day -- and the past.
In other words, a prediction: In the future -- there will be a disruption of Internet scale in Communications -- when Non-Hertzian communications technologies become dominant...
Also, with respect to Law -- the root of all Law (all human Law) is human agreement -- which is also the root of all man-made contracts.
Congress (or any other governing body) cannot change Natural Law -- that is, no act of human agreement will change the nature of Gravity, nor any of the Laws (pure laws, natural laws) that govern the physical universe...
Or perhaps as Star Trek's Scotty would so eloquently say:
"Ye cannot change the laws of physics!" <g>