To: Fester Chugabrew
"The speed of light is equal to the wavelength multiplied by the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (microwaves and visible light are both examples of electromagnetic waves)."How can the unenlightened, ignorant, religious, superstitious masses so intent on the destruction of science verify this proposition?
If one is capable of logic, the proposition is verifiable just by thinking about it. A regular cosine waveform is rippling by you. The distance from wave peak to wave peak is one wavelength. The frequency is the number of wave peaks per second. The propagation speed in distance/second of the waveform past you has to be the physical length of one such peak-to-peak interval times the number per second of such intervals passing you.
Shame one has to spell it out for the logic-deprived. I guess religion really isn't all that good for the brain.
446 posted on
05/24/2005 6:59:29 AM PDT by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
One can also educate oneself; do some science; get enough experience to properly judge whether a published result is correct; or just remain ignorant. Like other lifestyles, ignorance is a choice.
456 posted on
05/24/2005 7:24:05 AM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: VadeRetro
I appreciate the logic you present, however the average person may have difficulty comfirming the length of an electromagnetic wave as well as the frequency. Science is not in agreement about its constancy, either. Science has not completely addressed the nature of light with respect to wave vs. particle. In short, science has not answered all the questions regarding either light or electromagnetic waves, but certain of its lap dogs would like the rest of the world to believe they have the history of the universe nailed.
Why certain folks want to masquerade under the name of science while they present fanciful versions of unrecorded, unobserved history is no mystery, but a shame.
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