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Can you catch light in a pot?

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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 11:19 am
(June 1, 2016 at 11:16 am)pool the great Wrote: I know I know.
The reason you can't catch light in a pot is because the light inside the pot gets reflected off of the inner surfaces and gradually losses it's brightness.

But imagine the pot is made up of vacuum. There is nothing for the light to get reflected off of and lose energy,right? So does the light stay as it is? Like you put some light inside our pot made of vacuum and close it off. The pot should "contain"  light forever, right?

If there is nothing to bounce off then the light would keep going.



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Can you catch light in a pot? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - June 1, 2016 at 11:16 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by downbeatplumb - June 1, 2016 at 11:19 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 1, 2016 at 11:48 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 1, 2016 at 12:32 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 1, 2016 at 12:40 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Alex K - June 1, 2016 at 12:44 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Alex K - June 1, 2016 at 2:51 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 1, 2016 at 2:04 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 1, 2016 at 10:45 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by abaris - June 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by LastPoet - June 1, 2016 at 3:59 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by abaris - June 1, 2016 at 4:25 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 1, 2016 at 4:13 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by zebo-the-fat - June 1, 2016 at 3:33 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Alex K - June 1, 2016 at 3:45 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 1, 2016 at 3:56 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by RozKek - June 1, 2016 at 3:45 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 1, 2016 at 4:15 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by LastPoet - June 1, 2016 at 4:16 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by LastPoet - June 1, 2016 at 4:28 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Fireball - June 1, 2016 at 10:16 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by ignoramus - June 1, 2016 at 11:13 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Aoi Magi - June 2, 2016 at 1:41 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Silver - June 2, 2016 at 1:45 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 2, 2016 at 1:48 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Silver - June 2, 2016 at 1:49 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Silver - June 2, 2016 at 2:10 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 2, 2016 at 2:11 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Alex K - June 2, 2016 at 3:43 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by brewer - June 2, 2016 at 5:16 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 2, 2016 at 5:18 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 3, 2016 at 7:58 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by The Valkyrie - June 3, 2016 at 12:50 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 3, 2016 at 1:31 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by brewer - June 3, 2016 at 7:22 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Alex K - June 3, 2016 at 9:32 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 3, 2016 at 9:56 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by ignoramus - June 3, 2016 at 7:11 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Jackalope - June 3, 2016 at 7:22 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by IATIA - June 3, 2016 at 8:42 pm
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by ignoramus - June 3, 2016 at 11:56 pm

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