LeoPanthera 3 days ago

It's funny calling light "wireless".

It's not wrong exactly. Light can be transmitted wirelessly. Optical cables aren't even usually called "wires". It just sounds odd.

  • TheSpiceIsLife 3 days ago

    Wires aren't usually called wires either.

    Ethernet cable, figure eight cable, power cable, telephone cable, HDMI cable, audio cable, coaxial cable, optical cable.

    • LeoPanthera 3 days ago

      This can vary locally. In Commonwealth countries those things are often called "wires", or even "flexes" if you're my age or older.

    • bobsmooth 3 days ago

      A cable is a collection of individual wires.

      • droopyEyelids 3 days ago

        Like a battery is a collection of individual cells!

mjd 3 days ago

But only when connected to a reframbulated flux motivator.

  • MalbertKerman 3 days ago

    And aligned to a properly synchronized cardinal grammeter.

    • m463 3 days ago

      Can you use a Langstrom 7-inch gangly wrench?

notarealllama 3 days ago

Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!

  • noduerme 3 days ago

    As well as howling dogs, and bats crashing into things.

brcmthrowaway 2 days ago

If you had an omnidirectional antenna being fed by a THZ carrier wave would it produce visible light in all directions? Why not?