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ELI5: What exactly Is the Static On A Tv?

I under why static happens.. what what exactly is it? What is it a bunch of black and white dots?
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Background noise of the universe.

So the tv antenna is resonating with the band of frequencies it's designed to pick up, and when we send a specific signal comprised of one of those frequencies the antenna resonates and the tv takes the signal and puts it into all the dots on your screen.

So the antenna is picking up the random times it's resonates by other causes and it's trying to put that random shit on your screen. 

This is why the static is often called "noise" and why noise can distort your picture. Like when your ear can focus in on one conversation in a crowd of people talking, the rest is just noise. If you take that conversation away all your ear can then hear is noise until you focus on another sound.