technology.globalthoughtz.com — This scenario seems to be changing for sure as more and more computers are outrunning their electrical wiring. Printers, hard drives and Screens are getting more demanding by the day in terms of speeds and processing capability.
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stk198323May 29, 2010
Sound is a compression of a media (usually air) so it can bend at 90 degree, light is governed by the laws of refraction meaning you can't bend it more then a given angle.The same reason why light can enter your car during the day but not exit it, incident light has a small angle and can go trough the window, refracted light from your interior has an higher angle and can't escape, raising the temperature inside your car.Inside optical cables if you bend it too much light will be refracted not along the cable but back where it came form.
tiakMay 29, 2010
Someone needs to go back to highschool Physics class, the velocity of propagation of current is about 75% C, and it is necessarily a single signal, while you can combine multiple wavelengths with light then split them later.
sethprMay 29, 2010
But we do have data traveling through optical cables, that's exactly what Fiber Optic data cables are for. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communica ...</a>
sinembarg0May 29, 2010
stk: while an electric field may theoretically move at C (in a vacuum), current in a wire would only move at (or close to) C if there was no resistance. Since we haven't figured that part out yet, current does not move at C or close to it in a wire.
zoomboyMay 29, 2010
"Hey kid, I'm a computer.."