What If We Could See X-Ray Radiation And All The Other Components Of The Spectrum?

What If We Could See X-Ray Radiation And All The Other Components Of The Spectrum?

Light can also be called electromagnetic radiation that can be identified by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs in a very wide range of wavelengths, for gamma rays whose length is less than about 10 ^ (- 11) meters and for radio waves measured in meters.

 Within this broad-spectrum, the wavelengths visible for humans occupy a very small band, from about 700 nm, for red light down to about 400 nm for violet light. The spectral regions adjacent to the visible band are often related to as light, also infrared at the one end and ultraviolet at the other. 
The speed of light in a vacuum is a fundamental physical fixed, the current value of which is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second,  approximately 186,282 miles per second.

Now we might know that visible light, the light that we see and perceive, is just a little portion of all the light there is. 

So what would happens if we could see X-Ray Radiation and all the other components of the spectrum?


First If your eyes could see forms of electromagnetic radiation, like X-rays, you can look into the body of people or animals would be an altogether phantasmagorical experience. You would be able to look directly inside the skin and right into the bones.

 Maybe it’s good that we don’t have this ability, yet we still get the benefits of X-rays. They are of enormous importance in medical diagnosis, also they are useful in scientific research and suitable in a number of industrial applications. 

1.X-Rays radiation


 Simply, X-rays radiation are a super-powered form of ordinary light—waves that travel in straight lines at the speed of light but have very high energy.
Thanks to the cinema and the love of pop culture’s for X-ray vision, we have been led to believe that X-ray vision would allow us to see through the clothes of others - as well as underground buildings and bunkers.

 The truth is, even if you could see through someone's clothes using your X-ray vision which you can do, by the way, it's just their bones that you'll be able to see. 
X-rays have a very small wavelength and large amounts of energy, which is why they can penetrate many materials to give this "see-through" visual effect.

If you have X-ray vision it would be far less cool than pop culture has led you to believe in: you would see a slightly different-colored sky (the atmosphere has small amounts of X-rays) and you would need an iron eye mask to catch any shut-eye. 

 Also, X-rays can pass through thick layers of fat and muscle, so what opposition could thin eyelids possibly offer!

2.Radio waves

From our smartphone and television to computer networks and artificial satellites orbiting the planet, everything relies on radio waves to function. Apart from these modern services, everything in the universe emits radio waves, so being able to see these waves does more hurt than good to your eyes, and it’s even worse for your brain also. 

The latter would be bombarded with a lot of information in countless colors at all times that you would not be able to register/isolate anything at all, making you feel blinded by the influx of so much light and color.

3.Infrared

With infrared vision, colors would essentially disappear, and you would see things through different tones of heat. The hotter the object, the brighter it would appear. 

Also, Human beings emit heat, so you would see every other person lit up according to how hot he/she is.

in addition, you would be able to see people into other objects, such as walls, clothes, etc, but they would appear less similar to their usual selves and more terrifying instead, in depend on their heat signature.

4.Ultraviolet


Normally, humans can't perceive ultraviolet thanks to the presence of cones that only detect red, blue, and green in their eyes. However, certain animals like sockeye, reindeer butterflies and salmon do have additional cones that enable them to perceive UV light.

However, humans can perceive UV light but it happens at the cost of their eye lenses. People who have aphakia that means the absence of an eye lens due to injury, surgery, ulcer, etc.have related being able to see UV wavelengths.

 Claude Monet who's an eminent painter and a "father" of French Impressionist painting, was able to see “impossible” colors due to the elimination of lens following cataract surgery.

Electronic gadgets that emit UV light (for example., computer screens, tanning beds, and UV lamps) would appear brighter, and seeing things with the Ultra Violet filter would give our current perception of colors an overhaul.

5.Gamma rays


In terms of frequency, gamma rays are at the top of the electromagnetic spectrum. They consist of high-energy particles that can penetrate almost anything around us. 

Since there are not many sources of gamma rays around us, there would not be much difference in your vision. However, you can see radioactive materials (emitting gamma rays), but you should probably stay away. You would not want to see too much gamma rays.

In conclusion, it is fair to say that having another type of vision than the one we have now would make things more problematic or more uncomfortable for us.

 However, if there was an option to enable and disable these special visions, I think it would be pretty cool.