[Laser] license for lightwave?

[KD7JYK DM09]

I was refering to the pixels, actually, the individual points of phosphorus
that make up the screen, not the photons that excite them.  Perhaps the
luminous dots on the screen have another term I am not aware of, something
used in the manufacturing trade?  As for photons being waves or particles,
no mass, no electric charge...  sometimes...  Oh, heck...

Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: "ed" <bernies at netaxs.com>
To: <laser at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 19:12
Subject: Re: [Laser] license for lightwave?


: 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
:
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