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Can you catch light in a pot?
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RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 1, 2016 at 12:59 pm)pool the great Wrote: Interesting. So the light never goes out. How does it gain the energy to move for an infinite period of time though? Is that beam of light acting as a fuel for... Itself?

Gentlemen, I believe I've solved unlimited energy. I'll take the Nobel through mail.

Inertia.  Once something is in a non-accelerating state, it will remain in that state (moving or still) until a force acts upon it.
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#12
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I don't know, but you certainly can light pot.
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#13
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 1, 2016 at 1:00 pm)pool the great Wrote:
(June 1, 2016 at 12:44 pm)Alex K Wrote: Pooly, why wouldn't the light simply leave your pot if there's nothing to bounce it back?

My pot is really big

Joe - Did I tell you that I've trapped ten Lions the other day?

Jack - Wow, what did you catch them in?

Joe - Africa!

Jack - No, I mean in what kind of trap, not where!

Joe - Yes, yes, in Africa. I cunningly waited till they found themselves in there and - BAM, they were caught.

Jack - You didn't catch them, you didn't do anything, that doesn't count.

Joe - Why not? And it's secure, too! I reckon that they won't ever be able to escape because the continent is so big!

Jack - Go away.

Thus endeth the parable.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#14
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
I want to know how to make a pot out of nothing
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

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http://io9.gizmodo.com/scientists-freeze...-912634479

Not entirely the same as catching, but yeah.
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#16
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 1, 2016 at 3:33 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I want to know how to make a pot out of nothing

Sounds like Zen Buddhism exercise #2343
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 1, 2016 at 3:33 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I want to know how to make a pot out of nothing

First you need a Klein bottle.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm)abaris Wrote: I don't know, but you certainly can light pot.

After doing extensive research, I find that is true. Please do your own peer review.
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#19
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(June 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm)abaris Wrote: I don't know, but you certainly can light pot.

Don't mind if I do. Bong
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In other news....

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