How Cell Service Actually Works | Wendover Productions
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How Cell Service Actually Works | Wendover Productions

C1AdvancedOctober 8, 202624 min
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but here's a more… relatable form. This is the color cyan. But more accurately,

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This is electromagnetic radiation. You can't see it, but it's there. In fact, it's everywhere, but here's a more… relatable form. This is the color cyan. But more accurately, this is waves of electromagnetic radiation oscillating at about 616,856,909,465,021 times per second. As they reach your eyes, light-receptive cells translate the radiation

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into electric signals which travel to your brain and are generally perceived as the color that we collectively refer to as cyan. If we strip away our interpretation, though, the radiation, scaled up about 100,000 times, looks like this.

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The color cyan is waves of energy roughly 486 nanometers wide. But what happens if that width tightens? At 380 nanometers, our perception changes to this dark purple. Meanwhile, if it expands to a roomy 780 nanometers, our brains interpret the radiation as this

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