top | item 45812982 (no title) giva | 3 months ago "X-ray light" sound a bit like beer soda. discuss order hn newest terminalshort|3 months ago "X-ray" is just a word for light that falls within an arbitrary band of wavelength. MyOutfitIsVague|3 months ago Yes, but so are radio waves and gamma rays; it would still sound odd to hear somebody say "radio light" or "gamma light". giantg2|3 months ago I think you have it backwards - light is a term used for specific bands of the EM spectrum. Nobody is calling their FM radio waves light emissions. Unless this is a naming collison with the already established x-rays. load replies (2)
terminalshort|3 months ago "X-ray" is just a word for light that falls within an arbitrary band of wavelength. MyOutfitIsVague|3 months ago Yes, but so are radio waves and gamma rays; it would still sound odd to hear somebody say "radio light" or "gamma light". giantg2|3 months ago I think you have it backwards - light is a term used for specific bands of the EM spectrum. Nobody is calling their FM radio waves light emissions. Unless this is a naming collison with the already established x-rays. load replies (2)
MyOutfitIsVague|3 months ago Yes, but so are radio waves and gamma rays; it would still sound odd to hear somebody say "radio light" or "gamma light".
giantg2|3 months ago I think you have it backwards - light is a term used for specific bands of the EM spectrum. Nobody is calling their FM radio waves light emissions. Unless this is a naming collison with the already established x-rays. load replies (2)
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