Could light be a media for transport?

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The discussion centers on the concept of using light as a medium for transport, comparing it to air as a medium for sound. Participants clarify that light exhibits both wave and particle characteristics, complicating its classification. Fiber optics are highlighted as an example of light being used to transmit data effectively. The conversation also touches on the distinction between the medium (like air or fiber optics) and the waves that travel through them. Overall, the feasibility of using light for various forms of communication and energy transmission is explored.
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Could light be a media for transport?

I realize that light is a wave, but isn't also a particle?

I mean if air can be used as a media, then why can't light, they are both particles.
 
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Don't really understand what you are talking about.
Do you mean medium? And in either case, what do you mean by media/medium for transport?
Light can be viewed as both a light and wave, correct.
Air is an assembly of lots of different particles... but i don't see what you're getting at.
 
Using light as a medium for information and such, why can't it be used for that purpose?
 
You mean like, transmitting information, video, music, and communications via light? Or getting energy from it?
 
Fiber optics use light to transmit data, but I think you are confusing the medium with the wave that travels on it. Ie, sound is a wave, air is the medium. Transmittind data through air uses sound. Light is a little tougher, though, since it doesn't really travel over a medium and isn't easily classified as a particle or wave - it is something entirelydifferent, but it behaves sort of like a wave or particle depending on how it is measured.

Fiber optics utilize the wave-like properties of light to transmit data.
 
What i was sarcastically getting at, is that radio everything is using light for just that purpose. So is fiber optics, as russ said.
 

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