Does data transmitted wirelessly have mass, is it visible on any spectrum? Please explaing why for either yes or no, I’m confused.
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You can send transmissions via visible light, though generally people don’t because a rapidly pulsing 600nm band signal (orangish red light) from a tower would annoy a lot of people and be stopped by pretty thin barriers. It also isn’t quite as convent or easy to make directional as a microwave transmission.
Light has no resting mass, so the signals aren’t heavy, even as whole movies, novels, cat pictures and naughty text messages fly past you all day.
Though not wireless old toslink audio cables used fiber optic cable to carry visible light. You could see the red light blinking when in operation, ‘seeing’ the data.
You can send transmissions via visible light, though generally people don’t because a rapidly pulsing 600nm band signal (orangish red light) from a tower would annoy a lot of people and be stopped by pretty thin barriers. It also isn’t quite as convent or easy to make directional as a microwave transmission.
Light has no resting mass, so the signals aren’t heavy, even as whole movies, novels, cat pictures and naughty text messages fly past you all day.
Though not wireless old toslink audio cables used fiber optic cable to carry visible light. You could see the red light blinking when in operation, ‘seeing’ the data.
Do waves on water have mass? No.. it’s just energy. The RF/wireless signal is the same except instead of an ocean of water, it’s an ocean/field of electromagnetism.
If you have something that can see the EM field then yeah it’s visible.
Do waves on water have mass? No.. it’s just energy. The RF/wireless signal is the same except instead of an ocean of water, it’s an ocean/field of electromagnetism.
If you have something that can see the EM field then yeah it’s visible.
Do waves on water have mass? No.. it’s just energy. The RF/wireless signal is the same except instead of an ocean of water, it’s an ocean/field of electromagnetism.
If you have something that can see the EM field then yeah it’s visible.
Nope, wireless data doesn’t have mass, and it’s not visible on any spectrum. It’s all just invisible waves of energy zooming around through the air like tiny little ninjas.
Nope, wireless data doesn’t have mass, and it’s not visible on any spectrum. It’s all just invisible waves of energy zooming around through the air like tiny little ninjas.
Nope, wireless data doesn’t have mass, and it’s not visible on any spectrum. It’s all just invisible waves of energy zooming around through the air like tiny little ninjas.
There are some good answers here, but I think mass-less photon “view” is not that helpful as ELI5. Imagine this: you and your friend are sitting on the other side of wall, all you have is compass, all he has is strong magnet. You both know morse code. So he just flips magnet for short and long intervals, and you look at compass. There, simple data transfer. No “things” were send “your way” specifically, he just modulated (electro)magntic field, and you have the right thing to detect the changes.
There are some good answers here, but I think mass-less photon “view” is not that helpful as ELI5. Imagine this: you and your friend are sitting on the other side of wall, all you have is compass, all he has is strong magnet. You both know morse code. So he just flips magnet for short and long intervals, and you look at compass. There, simple data transfer. No “things” were send “your way” specifically, he just modulated (electro)magntic field, and you have the right thing to detect the changes.
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