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14 questions linked to/from How are photons "consumed"?
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A mirror room with light inside theory [duplicate]
Let's say there is a room that has the shape of a cube with all the walls, roof and ground made of mirrors, it is all mirrors and theoretically we managed to have light in there without a source. (...
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Could light bounce infinitely? [duplicate]
If you were to construct a box with perfect mirrors on all sides, and would emit some photons in to that, would the light bounce infinitely? Sorry of this is a stupid queston, i'm not a physicist ;)
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Pair of Mirrors Facing Each Other [duplicate]
If you have two mirrors facing each other and you introduce a light source into the reflections and you take the light source away, would it immediately go away for all reflections in the "tunnel" of ...
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Why can't we see in dark where there is a bulb which was once ONN and now it's OFF, the photons released when bulb was ONN should travel to our eye? [duplicate]
Suppose a boy is in a room with a bulb (no windows and other light sources). Now the boy ON's the bulb and OFFs it such that only one photon is released (hypothetical). Now the bulb is OFF. The photon ...
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The properties of light photons [duplicate]
Please consider a closed room with light reflecting walls and in the centre of the room there is a Lighting Bulb. Now if I switch on the bulb, the room is obviously illuminated with light. When I ...
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Are infinite reflections between two mirrors really infinite?
As written in the title it's a somewhat rhetoric question, so let me be more clear.
Let's say I have two mirrors facing each other. They are perfectly aligned and perfectly reflective. I'm looking ...
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Two mirrors facing each other
What happens when you place two mirrors facing each other? Is it possible to have an infinite amount of reflections?
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Trapping a lightray
Given a solid whose interior is a hollow sphere with perfectly reflecting mirrors. A small hole is drilled in the sphere and a photon is sent in at some angle. Will it always eventually exit through ...
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Photons in a "wrap-around" universe
This question was inspired by: How are photons "consumed"?
Imagine I have some number of photons, $N$, each of frequency $\nu$, moving randomly in a spherical "wrap-around" universe of ...
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Infinite reflection inside a glass loop
If you had a loop made of completely transparent glass (or other material), in the shape of a donut; think atomic collider (but probably not needing to be so large :) ), and you introduced light from ...
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Color and the absorption of light in quantum mechanics
In an answer to a another question, the poster states without sources the following:
From a quantum mechanical perspective, all light scattering is a form
of absorption and re-emission of light ...
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Is it possible to save the light?
I am just thinking why can't we save the light (not a bulb). Lights normally get reflect by mirror, when source is off reflection is gone or absorbed or discharged by other object in room.
Can't we ...
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Infinite reflections between two spherical mirrors
Consider two spherical mirrors which reflect light from a source which is placed perpendicular to the line connecting their centres. Can there be infinite reflections between the mirrors, i.e., a ray ...
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If you drop a candle into an infinite well made of perfect mirrors, would you see it forever?
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If you drop a candle into an infinite well made of perfect mirrors, would you see it forever?
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So when you drop a candle into an infinite well not made of perfect mirrors, the ...
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