Yes I know that Radio & Light Waves are a part of the Electromagnetic Spectrum but that does NOT answer the question or does it?
2006-08-15 02:19:47 · 17 answers · asked by thepolishdude 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
All quanta of the electromagnetic spectrum--from radio to gamma--travel at c. These quanta are also known as photons. Radio waves are simply a frequency that our retinas, or pupils, (sorry I forget which does it I was always terrible at the difficult science: biology) cannot observe or detect. The human eye (yeah that's GOT to be the part :P) can detect frequencies of the same spectrum someone decided to label visible light, but it's all the same electromagnetic spectrum and it all travels at c in a vacuum.
2006-08-15 04:20:48 · answer #1 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer this question clearly one has to understand that 'light' is just the visible part of electromagnetic spectrum. Light is thus an electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves travel at different speeds depending upon the medium through which they are travelling. They attain maximum speed in free space (vacuum in everyday language). Radio Waves are also electromagnetic waves. Therefore they do not travel faster than light in vacuum or free space, as you suggest in your question. Please note that this speed limitation is based on our current understanding of the nature and relationships between energy, distance, time and mass advanced by Einstein.
2006-08-15 09:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radio waves being part of the electromagnetic spectrum travel at the same speed as light waves.
2006-08-15 09:29:42 · answer #3 · answered by fenwick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radio waves do not travel at or higher than the speed of light. Light rays are at a higher frequency in the spectrum than radio waves.
2006-08-15 09:27:20 · answer #4 · answered by sofaguy101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is not just for light, but for all parts of the EM spectrum. As you said, radio waves are part of that spectrum. So radio waves travel at the speed of light.
It should be called speed of an EM wave...
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To the person saying there are theoretical particles that travel faster than the speed of light, they are called TACHYONS. No-one has observed them as of yet, but they (in theory), travel fater than light
2006-08-15 09:28:54 · answer #5 · answered by dennis_d_wurm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radio waves do not travel faster, they travel at the same speed as light.
2006-08-15 09:25:11 · answer #6 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If space is nothing than a radio wave is the disturbance of nothing.hence the wave is traveling in nothing and time.
We can transmit intelligence over nothing.
The radio wave need nothing to travel .
The radio wave energy is called electromagnetic energy and it does need nothing to travel.So there is no hindrance about its speed.
2006-08-15 10:11:24 · answer #7 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radio waves do not travel faster than the speed of light? They travel the same 186,000 miles/sec as a flashlight.
2006-08-15 09:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by jlalston89 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is already answered radio waves do not accomplish a speed greater tha the speed of light....If u have anything else to ask
frame ur question properly.
2006-08-15 09:40:53 · answer #9 · answered by Wolverine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All electromagnetic radiation travels at the same speed in a vacuum. Radio, light, x-rays--same speed. When they travel within a medium (such as air) they slow down.
2006-08-15 09:30:15 · answer #10 · answered by NotEasilyFooled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋