Good point about the perfect reflector.
Maybe this experiment experiment would only result in producing heat.
Could it be used to create a flameless heat source, or possibly even drive a steam turbine?
I guess my idea is now sounding a lot more like a light engine.
BWT... Accurately calculating angles of light reflected from 150 year old mirrors sounds about as difficult as how ancient egyptians moved the stone to build the pyramids.
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Very good points!
I can imagine the logic and of course it makes sense! But just as was mentioned, many people once believed the Earth to be flat, because that's was the popular opinion.
The current speed of light was estimated at least 150 years ago by a guy with mirrors measuring...
Look I'm trying to think outside of the box here, not quibble about semantics.
Forgive me if I am not up to speed on fermion's and gluon's and everything in quantum mechanics as I have only completed the 7th grade.
In my opinion physics is common sense, as long as you can identify all of...
As a photon is absorbed by an atom, it excites an electron, elevating it to a higher energy level. If the energy is great enough, so that the electron jumps to a high enough energy level, it may escape the positive pull of the nucleus and be liberated from the atom in a process called...
*Example of a charged particle from the sun hitting our atmosphere is the Aurora Borielis.
All electromagnetic radiation has particle-like properties as discrete packets of energy, or quanta, called photons. The frequency of the wave is proportional to the particle's energy. Because photons are...
Carnot's heat engine had to do with the transfer of hot & cold in order to produce mechanical work... not sure how that relates to this idea to capture light.
I understand that highly charged photons are released by our sun constantly, but
Gamma bursts should release light particles at faster than light speed.
We know through observation that light is affected by gravity and also by heat.
These two variables lead me to believe that light speed...
I would focus the incoming light using a converging lens. The light would be directed onto a perfect convex mirror that would help to further focus the light.
I hope using this method in series, an infinite loop of sorts could be created.
If this were possible, how would the light behave...
I just wrote a very detailed response, and when I posted the reply, the forum page had timed out. *!#%* I hate when that happens! What sense does that make!
Why does every forum time out after about 10 or so minutes of writing, and then lose everything you just wrote to tell you to login...
I have no background in physics, but I have a question about light.
Might consider it the 'Light in a box theory'.
What would happen if you could make a box or sphere of mirrors that would constantly accept incoming light and focus the light into an infinite loop with little or no...
I understand that it makes the relativity theory work nicely, but...
Whether it's a particle or wave, light must have mupltiple speeds.
Light particles can be charged or excited which would increase the speed of the particle.
Light also has different wavelengths, each with different...