Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 15, 2012

“If the spectrum were 2,500 miles wide….”

To undestand that, I would want to know what is the minumum frequency, the maximum frequency, and how the frequencies are spaced.

Much less a storm….alas, I believe all Brewster is capable of is an occluded front……..with occasional fog….

Jogger2: Exactly right, since the frequency can go to infinity the visible spectrum being of finite size should have a releative size of zero inches.

OMG! Put your tinfoil hats on!

So, according to the chart, Brewster’s brain is just barely visible in both size and hue.

Having only a Bachelor of Arts degree, all I can say is, “Hey, clever drawings.”My hat is off to you magnificently nerdy Science types. You give my poor artsy/craftsy brain much to ponder.

Lol. Very good Gweedo

The “one inch out of 2500 miles” analogy comes from using a linear scale for frequency (that is, each inch represents a frequency range of so many terahertz, and each inch represents the same number of them). That’s not how we usually deal with frequency and wavelength, because their natural behavior is logarithmic/exponential (e.g., each tick on the chart represents a power of ten). .As for limits to the spectrum, yes, they exist. While in theory you could lower frequency arbitrarily close to zero, at some point you get to a wave whose length is too long to fit in the universe. At the other end, since energy is proportional to frequency, you reach an upper bound at a frequency that encompasses all the energy in the universe.

Yes

@Astute Social Observer

Christian scientists aren’t that rare. At the university I went to, there was probably a higher proportion of Christians in the Physics program than in any other major at the school.

So an ant is bigger than Brewster’s brain? Who’d a “thunk-it”? ;-D

I love science Sundays! These waves make me feel brighter :-) Does anyone know where cell phone waves fall?

The thought of Brewster having a brain has just brewed my brain up.

Hee, hee. Love the strip.

“Did you know that with FM radio and TV the tower supports the antenna at the top but with AM radio the tower is the antenna?”

The AM tower can also electrocute you if you get too close or touch it while it is turned on. O_0

Whatever a scientist’s personal opinion on God, the correct (and only) scientific explanation for the existence of God is: no explanation. Science can neither confirm nor deny the existence of God. It is the wrong ‘tool’ for such speculations.

We can only ‘see’ a narrow band of the spectrum, and our brains assign a ‘color’ to sections of that band, for instance, electromagnetic wavelengths in the range between 630–740 nm, our brain interprets as “red”.It’s interesting to speculate . . . if we could ‘see’ more . . . what ‘color’ radio waves would be . . . or x-rays . . .

@Clark Kent: Actually, I did NOT know that, but now I have something new to teach my physics students.

@Astute Social Observer: What on Earth are you talking about? Actually, strike that. I do not care what you think one’s religion has to do with any of this discussion/comic.

@Nabuquduriuzhur: So, is it verified that Eta Carinae’s core is becoming degenerate matter? I did my senior thesis on the mass loss rate of that star, but (16 years ago) found no published papers on the believed state of the core.

Love the ‘Gamma’ reference .. I don’t suppose a Ronnie Montrose reference woulda worked, but I’d like to have seen it!!