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How many Mhz would equal the speed of light?

Huh?? CPU speed is measured in hertz (cycles per second). Speed of light is a velocity (distance per time), so you can't really relate or compare the two.
 
Now wait just a darn minute here. Light is a particle wave, so the lower the frequency the faster a photon must travel. Consider light with a one mile amplitude and light with practically flat line amplitude. Both propagate through space at the same speed, but the photon travels on a two mile sign wave to go the same distance, so the photon must be going way faster than the speed of light. That would mean that very low MHz chips would be the fastest. Simple.
 
Where to start, where to start... ?

All electrical signals travel at near light speed. There is there is realationship between speed, frequency and wavelength. speed = frequency*wavelenght. This is not the greatest way to express it but it types up best. For electro-magnetic waves the consider the speed fixed (c) that means that given the frequency (say in MHz) you can compute the wavelength.
 


<< How many Mhz would equal the speed of light?

i wuz just wondering...or does all data process at the speed of light...wait i'm kinda confusing myself... >>



As others have explained, signal propagation speed can be related to signal frequency in many different ways in different media.

But you hint at a very interesting question... how much bandwidth does light have?



If I understand correctly, fiber optic lines can literally transmit Terrahertz of information simultaneously.

Think of it like this: a T1 connection is about 1Mbit. This is pretty sufficient for many things.

One THz (terrahertz) is a million times this bandwidth! The beautiful thing is that it is very likely that fiberoptic lines will extend into everybody's homes, in the not-too-distant future.

Think of how quickly you could download pr0n on one of those babies! 😉
 
Although according to current theories, light has wave like properties. And yes light does have a frequency which is dependant upon color.

But they really are like comparing apples and oranges.
 
I can't remember where I learned this, but I had thought that the maximum speed of electricity through a copper wire was around 2,500 miles per second (due to resistance).

Since normal signal traffic takes place over copper wires, does that figure into the maximum mhz you can cram down a copper line?

Too many years out of college for me to deal with this question.
 
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