Post #1553179
2026-03-21 12:52 UTC
@ln @sunpig it really is mind-bending to think about how radiated heat, radio, etc are all just light. It all does the same things - reflects, refracts, etc. It just does it at different scales.
Your wifi router's antennas are like glow sticks, flashing complex patterns at stupidly fast rates, for example, and that "light" is interacting with everything around it!
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@feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-21 14:04
@draeath @ln @sunpig I think wifi is using frequency modulation and amplitude modulation. So I would argue it's not flashing in that sense. It's more changing color and getting dimmer on incredibly fast speeds. But, yes light seams so simple and yet our understanding of reality is falling apart, once we think about it a little longer.