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    High School Why Don’t Photons Get Trapped Forever Between Two Mirrors?

    I am assuming this also applies to a closed mirrored box correct?
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    High School Magnets lines of force are electrons?

    The way I understood a magnet was that the way all of the holes in between the electrons faced one way while the electrons faced another way creating the repelling and attracting forces. Since protons attract each other the holes allowed the protons to interact more then they usually would in...
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    Graduate Can Photons Interact with Each Other Through Electron Mediation?

    Shouldn't crisscrossing 2 laser beams answer this question?
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    Undergrad How Does the Laser Impact the Functioning of an Ion Thruster?

    Here's where I saw it: http://www.sumobrain.com/patents/jp/Rf-type-ion-thruster/JP62178779.html Please read it and tell me if I miss read it. There's also this too that was on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_ion_thruster
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    Undergrad How Does the Laser Impact the Functioning of an Ion Thruster?

    Exactly how does the ion thruster rely on the laser in it's process exactly. I have been told that the ion thruster uses a laser but I wasn't given anymore information on what it exactly does.