[Laser] license for lightwave?

[ed]

hey kurt,

they're actually called "photons" (not pixels) in the real world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon

now, do you believe they're waves or particles?  physicists disagree on this.


your question about licensing optical frequencies is a good one.  i wouldn't 
put it past the FCC to start selling off higher and higher portions of the 
electromagnetic spectrum, like they just did with the 700mhz land grab.

isn't it interesting how our government takes "ownership" of the public 
spectrum, and sells it to big corporations for Billions of dollars--who in turn 
will then charge the public Billions more to use the spectrum that was theirs 
to begin with.

and on the question of transmitting legal content (music or not) be advised 
that it's also a violation of FCC regulations to transmit profanity (bad words) 
over the electromagnetic spectrum--whether it's over amateur frequency 
allocations or not.  just thought i'd warn you ;-)

good luck with all your experiments,

ed, n3kow




 
Quoting "kd7jyk at earthlink.net" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>:

> Imagine if every light source, even candles, matches, pet lightning bugs,
> every illumination device in your car, each individual pixel in your computer
> screen, et cetera, required a federal license...
> 
> Kurt