Re: Very high frequencies

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

light is electromagnetic radiation (or photons...) just like radio.  The
device you are thinking of is a laser, some of which produce light of high
enough intensity that the electric field exceeds the breakdown strength of
air, causing ionization and breakdown.  I haven't seen a visible laser with
this kind of power (although some of the the frequency doubled near IR
lasers might), but I have seen a big pulsed CO2 laser that broke down the
air along the beam.

In any case, you can't "see" the electric field (except as a hallucination
or visualization), no matter what the frequency is.  What you can see is
the conversion of the EM radiation into neural impulses (more like an
antenna and a receiver... ) which is proportional to the E field at the sensor.



Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "David Kronstein by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <david_kronstein-at-telus-dot-net>
> 
> I don't think that would be possible. The frequency of 650 nm red light is
> 461,538,461,538,461 hz(if my calculations are correct) . You'd probably need
> a coil the size of an atom to get a frequency that high. :-)
> 
> David
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:26 PM
> Subject: Very high frequencies
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> > Original poster: "Robert Figueira by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <obiwan1186-at-sunflower-dot-com>
> >
> > what would be the result of a tc or other electrical device that put out
> > high voltages at the frequencies of visible light? would you be able to
> > see the electric field around the coil in the form of visible light?
> > maybe this sounds crazy, but if you could do it, it would probably look
> > pretty spacatular.
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