Posted on 05/23/2005 3:29:06 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
"why dude, why?"
Because you posited an axiom that (a) is unsupportable and (b) an axiom that I _KNOW_ you've been called on multiple times.
I have no patience for willful stupidity.
Radio and television, microwaves, infared, visible light, ultraviolet light, x-rays and gamma rays are all the same thing. The only difference is radio has long wavelengths and low frequencies, while gamma rays have short wavelengths and high frequencies. The colors we see with the eye are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum as dental x-rays, radar beams, and microwave ovens.
So, in this microwave experiment we are measuring the speed of microwaves, not the speed of light? Nuts. I wanted to see a 700nm mark on the chocolate.
So there is some kind of reciprocal relationship whereby one has never discovered a long wave with a high frequency or vise versa? Just asking.
This is basic, *basic* science. This isn't advanced physics. This isn't even freshman college physics. This is grade school stuff! If you want to debate intelligently on scientific issues it really helps to understand some basic science, such as the electromagnetic spectrum. I don't expect you to turn around and drop everything and believe the earth is 4 and a half billion years old. However, with some basic understanding of science will come the realization that the earth cannot be merely 10,000 years old.
Either that or Darwin Central saboteur.
The conspiracy that caresTM
It depends on if you're talking about a waves in the water or light. It goes back to the speed of a wave being defined as the wavelength in distance multiplied by the frequency in Hertz. If you have a long wave with a high frequency, the speed is going to be faster than a short wave with a low frequency. A short wave with a low frequency would be an occasional ripple on still water, where a long wave with a high frequency would be rough seas. Now all light is pegged at the speed of light, so yes, there's a reciprocal relationship between frequency and wavelength for light energy. We make use of this principle when calculating the speed of light from the frequency of a microwave oven and the distance between the hot spots.
Facts are immutable!
Apparently Fester doesn't realise that not all light waves are in the visible spectrum.
If he really is like that, I pray to the Creator that his children are not home-schooled.
They're the same thing.
Nuts. I wanted to see a 700nm mark on the chocolate.
Get a really small ruler. But at 700nm the wavelength is too short to transfer energy to the water molecule.
Most of them. Most have died are were still the same person they were when they got the prize. Didin't change: no tails, no wings, no feathers, just arms, legs and human genitalis.
Somewhere in here you assume the lurkers are not idiots and rest your case.
If they're the same thing how come I can see one, but not the other? At any rate, I think you are saying every wave within the electromagnetic spectrum travels at the speed of light. Yes?
This keyboard sucks.
Sigh
No one can be willfully stupid. Are we being deflected?
Because the receptors (rods and cones) in your eye are able to detect a very narrow bandwidth of EM called the visible spectrum (red thru violet). (Note: only the cones are sensitive to color) This is why you see only shades of gray in very dim light such as night. The rods are far more sensitive to the dim light but they don't differentiate colors.
I think so.
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