What are the uses for visible light waves?

Answer 1

We use Visible Light to see. Without it, plants won't be able to go through the process of photosynthesis. We get all our light from things hot enough to produce light. A light bulb is over 3,000 degrees hot, and the sun is over 5,600 degrees hot, which is why a lot of light we see, somes from the sun.

Light is also used to make electricity.

Answer 2

-- useful when driving

-- helps avoid stepping in stuff

-- indispensable for reading/writing

-- facilitates movies and TV

-- adds color to life

-- narrows the field when dating

-- enhances the appeal of spectator sports

-- broadens the milieu of painting, sculpture, Photography, etc.

-- physiologically, it keeps the retina and optic nerve stimulated

-- generally enables us to see things

Answer 3

Time and space restrictions prevent entering a complete, exhaustive list.
Here are a few selected examples:

-- Watch TV
-- Drive without collisions
-- Read newspaper
-- Position bread accurately to insert into toaster
-- Watch movies
-- Play Video Games
-- Distinguish red light from green light when driving in the city
-- Locate supermarket
-- Locate required items within supermarket
-- Identify correct card in wallet when checking out of supermarket
-- Navigate correct route home from supermarket
-- Enjoy view of moon, stars, and planets
-- Locate desired buttons on telephone keypad
-- Locate desired letters on computer keyboard
-- Enjoy wallpaper on computer desktop
-- Learn when it's raining without going outside
-- Find desired CD in the pile
-- Achieve the desired look when brushing hair
-- Accurately set the alarm clock
-- Accurately apply make-up
-- Read the amount on the water bill, so as to avoid over- or under-paying
-- Locate names on the printed ballot when voting
-- Read the GPS screen when driving, between unintelligible verbal instructions
-- Read the restaurant menu
-- Then, determine whether the waiter has delivered the correct order
-- Read the gate-numbers at the airport, in order to board the correct airplane
-- Read the reply to the e-mail you sent yesterday
-- See where you're going so you don't bump into things and hurt yourself
-- Identify the correct child after daycare so you don't kidnap somebody else's
-- Visible light is crucial when ironing shirts, and when playing checkers.
-- Read the dots on the dice. Count the spots on the cards.

Answer 4

to light up things

One possible use could be as a safety measure, to help you see things

so that you don't bump into them as you move around. This could have

enormous applications in the fields of walking, driving, reading, and sports.

Answer 5

Here are a few. Try and see if you can think of some others.

-- useful when driving

-- helps avoid stepping in stuff

-- indispensable for reading/writing

-- facilitates movies and TV

-- adds color to life

-- narrows the field when dating

-- enhances the appeal of spectator sports

-- broadens the milieu of painting, sculpture, photography, etc.

-- physiologically, it keeps the retina and optic nerve stimulated

-- generally enables us to see things

Answer 6

Vision, photography, spectrography.