Firstly, no sarcasm whatsoever, meant every word. Secondly, I'm sorry to say that I found your questions as interesting as they were beyond my ability to answer - I was waiting for someone else to come along and enlighten us both. I have a background in electronics, but I'm an artist and a...
A high school sophomore wrote that. How many here were that eloquent or well-centered as a teen?
Absolutely magnificent.
::: bowing :::
Don't ever lose that spirit about you.
"Excuse me, Your Majesty, call me unworthy or whatever, but I can see your nasty little tally-whacker, and...
Actually, I find the whole idea that we can even sense light at all fascinating. Nothing more than our version of optical echolocation, a way of differentiating matter. Give us two eyes, and we can also get a rough approximation of distance.
But our "visible spectrum"? It could have been...
Spoken like a poet. As for me taking whacks, that's actually a good choice of terms. I can butcher principles and chop them up unrecognizable with the best of them. I'm not a physicist (a few in the forum are now thinking, "Pshaw! No sh*t!" ) - I have a love of things I don't understand. For...
That made my day. My son is a junior in high school, and the artwork/ideas affected him in exactly the same way. He printed them out to show his physics teacher. Seeds - food for thought, if nothing else.
Obviously, it would thrill me to no end if, one day, it could be shown that...
Meaning that you're referring specifically to visible light only (or within that range, including infrared and ultraviolet)?
Night vision goggles, lasers (a gajillion uses there, in practically every field) and fiber optics come immediately to mind.
"Wave nature" seems to be the catch - if...
Well! Zz's responses (and several subsequent good reads on the same subject - see below) got me thinking -
The first images that I provided links for implied graphic analogues to particles that radiate (two dimensionally) in all directions. They were aligned horizontally, adjacent to one...
This one has an answer!
Excerpted from: http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/pubs/A5/vanwagner.html
This shape change actually affects the crystal at the atomic level causing a movement of ions, with their attendant electric charges. This motion of the electrically charged particles constitutes...
Point taken. Then I have to just come out with the question in the most primitive way I know how to frame it - in three parts:
The typical magnetic field - is it comprised of
1) particles
2) waves
3) both
4) other
5) unknown
If not unknown:
Can these particles/waves/both/other...
Been to that site many times!
It speaks as to:
1. How magnetic fields are produced:
Magnetic fields are produced by electric currents, which can be macroscopic currents in wires, or microscopic currents associated with electrons in atomic orbits.
2. How it is defined (in terms of...
Actually, even that's useful. Often someone will ask me a question for which there is a definitive answer - but when I realize that they haven't sufficient foundation of basic understanding for me to explain it to them in terms they would understand, it can get very frustrating.
Is that the...