Only at a certain zoom that's true. But step back a little bit
  and there are better explanations than physics to describe the
  processes involved that are more efficient and effective. What
  you're saying is equivalent to looking at the binary while
  you're trying to read these words on facebook. Without the
  additional rules (such as decryption, protocol specs and such),
  the binary won't get you very far. Then again, my first modem
  was 300bps. I could listen to it working and I could hear the
  difference between a, b, c, d, e, f, g etc on the keyboard. I
  wanted to be able to listen to the transmission and decode it
  with my ears and I managed to get a lot of the letters down. But
  300 baud was not to last thankfully. I'd rather take speed and
  lose the ability to hear digital letters transmitting.