Could light be a media for transport?

[DecliningTech]

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.

 

[lzkelley]

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.

 

[DecliningTech]

Using light as a medium for information and such, why can't it be used for that purpose?

 

[lzkelley]

You mean like, transmitting information, video, music, and communications via light? Or getting energy from it?

 

[russ_watters]

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.

 

[lzkelley]

What i was sarcastically getting at, is that radio everything is using light for just that purpose. So is fiber optics, as russ said.