The Unseeable: Can They Do It?

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The discussion centers on the concept of "unseeable" light, specifically frozen light, and its implications for human vision. Participants explore how vision relies on light reflecting off objects to create visual perception. The phenomenon of frozen light involves photons being bounced between mirrors rather than being stopped, which prevents them from reaching the eye. This leads to the conclusion that if light cannot reach the eye, it remains unseeable.

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I know that they can do it, but what would it look like, or is it unseeable?
 
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Think about how vision works: We "see" light that strikes our eyeballs after bouncing off of objects. The light is an electric pulse that stimulates a current in our eye and brain.

That said, frozen light (which I have heard of but do not actually know about) does not actual reach our eyeball if it is indeed frozen, and so we cannot see it.
 
Someone502 said:
I know that they can do it, but what would it look like, or is it unseeable?
Here's an article about it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3308109.stm

Essentially it seems the photons aren't really stopped they are bounced back and forward between the equivalent of 2 mirrors.
 
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