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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 12:28 pm)pool the great Wrote:
(June 1, 2016 at 11:48 am)IATIA Wrote: The light will bounce or be absorbed.  Even with perfect reflectors the photons will eventually be absorbed until none were left.

What can light bounce off of in vacuum though?

OP -> "Can you catch light in a pot?"

Confused Fall The sides of the pot?
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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 Foxaèr - 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 Foxaèr - June 2, 2016 at 1:49 am
RE: Can you catch light in a pot? - by Foxaèr - 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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