If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?

In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton’s experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.

  • Tar_AlcaranEnglish
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    1 day ago

    If you’re ok with a prism the size of a bus, you can use it refract radio waves.

    Well, 300mHz has a 1 meter wavelength, so you refract some portable radio transmissions

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      If you’re interested in 1 m wavelength, the prism has to be bigger than that. Let’s go with 2 m to be on the safe side, you could probably move a prism like that with a lorry.