4 ms·
"When they get that short they are basically becoming infra-red anyway." You mean UV. You got your spectrum backwards. You should probably just admit your erro
by foobarbecue 12y ago
"When they get that short they are basically becoming infra-red anyway." You mean UV. You got your spectrum backwards.
You should probably just admit your error here -- it's light, not radio waves, causing the effect. Sure, they're part of a common spectrum, but your statement "radio waves are light" is obviously false. It's a bit like saying "red is blue".
Edit: I misread the above, lotsofmangos was talking about wavelengths coming from the radio site of the spectrum rather than light, so he didn't get it backwards. The rest of this post stands.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI have been saying all along that it is electromagnetic waves in the visible or near visible spectrum causing the effect, otherwise the bluetack would not work. As to saying that radio is light, if calculating the propagation speed of a radio wave, you don't talk about its speed of radio, you talk about its speed of light. In many technical contexts, light is one of the default terms. Also, there would be no need for the term 'visible light' if light could not be used to describe electromagnetic radiation outside the visible spectrum. Infra-red and ultra-violet are commonly thought of as light and you can even create lensing optics for radio waves and for x-rays. http://www.rozendalassociates.com/Luneberg/index.htm http://www.rozendalassociates.com/Luneberg/index.htm https://www.imt.kit.edu/english/236.php https://www.imt.kit.edu/english/236.php
- djmips 12y agoAgree, not sure why you were downvoted. EMP is photons. They were already considering the non visible spectrum when talking UV. There's a real prejudice and ignorance regarding visible light versus the entire electromagnetic spectrum.