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Just been out walking the dog, happily chatting on my mobile and I finished the call and thought 'How the hell does that work?' It's probably an age thing but I really don't understand how you can speak into a bit of plastic and half a second later someone else can hear you. So here's the challenge, explain in simple English how the fook it happens

Black magic. Simple as that really.

Microwaves.

Marvelous invention.

Make a phone call. Or cook a whole chicken in ten minutes. Brilliant.

Satellites and the electromagnetic spectrum, specifically microwaves.

SWLGooner wrote:Satellites and the electromagnetic spectrum, specifically microwaves.

Oh I know it bounces off a satellite but how does my voice change into a signal and then back into my voice?!?!?!?!

did you bring a bag to pick up the dog shit

Eboue-Why? wrote:Just been out walking the dog, happily chatting on my mobile and I finished the call and thought 'How the hell does that work?' It's probably an age thing but I really don't understand how you can speak into a bit of plastic and half a second later someone else can hear you. So here's the challenge, explain in simple English how the fook it happens

sad bastard

Voodoo or lets send percy off on one..........aliens

Eboue-Why? wrote:Just been out walking the dog, happily chatting on my mobile and I finished the call and thought 'How the hell does that work?' It's probably an age thing but I really don't understand how you can speak into a bit of plastic and half a second later someone else can hear you. So here's the challenge, explain in simple English how the fook it happens

I can explain how a jet engine works, as that's more my field of expertise - but other than that, when it comes to technology, I'm clueless (especially with invisible stuff )

storrmin571 wrote:Voodoo or lets send percy off on one..........aliens

ET phone home.....

Eboue-Why? wrote:Just been out walking the dog, happily chatting on my mobile and I finished the call and thought 'How the hell does that work?' It's probably an age thing but I really don't understand how you can speak into a bit of plastic and half a second later someone else can hear you. So here's the challenge, explain in simple English how the fook it happens

Si je pouvais parler Anglais je voudrais vous dire

It's all to do with that giant piece of invisible string that connects all phones together. We can't see them, but they are there.

it takes the sound waves / vibration your voice box makes and then represents that with a radio wave which the phone sends to the nearest mobile phone mast (a radio antenna of sorts) it will then get converted from a radio wave to an electrical current and sent over copper wires or converted into light / photons and sent over optical cables

it will then travel all the way to the nearest antenna to your friend using the underground cables


then it will be converted into a radio signal and sent to your mates phone in a similar way a radio works.

finally your mates phone coverts it back to a sound wave (the little speaker in the phone mimics the vibrations made by your voice-box)

It's basically a C.B radio with batteries