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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 10:30 pm)pool the great Wrote:
(June 1, 2016 at 2:04 pm)IATIA Wrote: Inertia.  Once something is in a non-accelerating state, it will remain in that state (moving or still) until a force acts upon it.

So if I could make a transparent pot with 100% reflective mirrors and inside with vacuum,then I'll have contained light for eternity, amiright?

Given everything 'perfect', yes. (it would not be transparent)
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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 deleteduser12345 - 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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