POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 17:44:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Stephen
Date: 8 Nov 2007 07:50:01
Message: <web.473305e34b19b3ff726bd13c0@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
> * Electricity does not, under any remotely "normal" conditions, produce
> light or affect it in any way. (E.g., you can't bend light using
> electricity.) The same goes for magnetism.
>
I thought lightning was normal at least in a storm.

> (I still can't figure out why you can use an oscilator to make radio
> waves, but not light rays...)

If you oscillate something fast enough it will heat up and emit light.

Stephen


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