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Why wouldn't light get wet

 
 
Reply Mon 24 Jan, 2011 02:45 pm
when it passes through water ?
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 24 Jan, 2011 02:52 pm
@permoda12345,
It does. It just dries out instantly. That is the nature of light.
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Reply Mon 24 Jan, 2011 02:55 pm
@roger,
oh come on ! are you serious ?!
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Krumple
 
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Reply Mon 24 Jan, 2011 02:58 pm
@permoda12345,
Permoda, its is because your definition is not accurate. What is wet? When we have bits of water molecules on us we call that getting wet, but only because of the sensation of feeling these water molecules. But they are just that molecules! The liquid is just a lose alignment of them so in reality wet does not exist, it is just a description we give to having liquid state molecules on something. Therefore light can not even get wet because it does not actually interact with the molecules in the same way that we do.
permoda12345
 
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Reply Mon 24 Jan, 2011 03:11 pm
@Krumple,
so why do clothes get wet ?
I have to think of that .
my god you made we feel idiot , I have to read more .
water is not wet .......water is not wet ......
so do my hair get wet or not .
tell me the truth .
Krumple
 
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Reply Mon 24 Jan, 2011 03:26 pm
@permoda12345,
Well first of all, I'm not trying to make you feel like an idiot. I am just saying language sometimes gets in the way of how we see or view the world. The term we use for wet is really nothing more than having liquid molecules on something. So in the case you ask, "so why do clothes get wet?"

Well what you are really experiencing is the water molecules have arranged themselves intertwined with in the fabric of your clothes. You can feel some of the molecules against your skin and you can feel the added weight of the water molecules. We just give that description a name wetness but in reality we never actually are wet.

This might be hard to believe but our bodies actually never make contact with those molecules! How do I know? Because at the subatomic level the molecules actually repel and so they never actually come into contact. In fact you never actually come into contact with anything! It just appears that we do because we can not see at the level of molecules to witness that nothing ever touches. So in reality you actually never touch the ground but actually hover just ever so slightly over it. The force that repels your body is the strong force electromagnetism.

In fact that force is so strong that it can demolish objects that fall from heights because once you collide with other molecules, such as the ground the repelling force is strong enough to push back and not just allow the object to keep going. For example, you can't walk on water unless it's frozen because the bonding force for water molecules is not strong enough to hold you up so you sink into them. But when it is frozen you can because the bonds between the molecules is stronger.

So I got a little side tracked there but in reality wetness does not exist. It is just a term we use to describe having water molecules intertwined on something else.
permoda12345
 
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Reply Tue 25 Jan, 2011 12:44 am
@Krumple,
Thanks a lot for your smart answer . Best wishes .
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north
 
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Reply Tue 25 Jan, 2011 10:33 pm

because light is energy , not a mass

therefore the water molecule has no mass to cling too

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