{"id":15711,"date":"2015-02-13T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2015-02-13T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:00:46","slug":"5-things-you-should-know-about-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15711","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Should Know About Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/5-things-every-human-know-light\/\">5 Things Every Human Should Know About Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2015-02-12T15:47:14+00:00\">Three!<\/del><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of these are electromagnetic waves and they all travel at the same speed (the speed of light). However, they have different interactions with matter. If you are inside, your mobile phone can still get data from a cell tower since these radio waves pass through most walls. Can you see through the walls? No. Visible light does not pass through most walls. X-rays mostly go through your skin, but you can\u2019t see (with visible light) through skin \u2013 that would just be weird.<\/p>\n<p>Technically the interaction with light and matter depends on the frequency of light \u2013 but since frequency and wavelength are related, we can just talk about the wavelength.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Things Every Human Should Know About Light Three! All of these are electromagnetic waves and they all travel at the same speed (the speed of light). However, they have different interactions with matter. If you are inside, your mobile &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}