Nice.Disconnected said:You can't have your photon and see it too.
Only if the object was a perfect mirror and didn't absorb any of the light!Mutsi said:Absolutely logical answers which I did not think of.
I did not knew a mirror would cause a loss of energy although obvious!
Now assume that I would have a perfect cube of perfect mirrors and have an object in the center. In that case I would have an illuminated object for infinity. Right?
Disconnected said:Only if the object was a perfect mirror and didn't absorb any of the light!
What folks?Discord7 said:Some folks say photons have mass.
Discord7 said:Some folks say photons have mass
Mutsi said:Absolutely logical answers which I did not think of.
I did not knew a mirror would cause a loss of energy although obvious!
Now assume that I would have a perfect cube of perfect mirrors and have an object in the center. In that case I would have an illuminated object for infinity. Right?
EDIT: Wait the object in the center would cause a loss of energy or be a perfect mirror itself and then no light would be visible.
DaveC426913 said:What folks?
Discord7 said:Well, to the casual observer, folks explaining gravitational redshift seem to be making that implication.
DaveC426913 said:That light has mass? No.
Yep, it was in my closet right behind the bowling ball! Forgot I put it there.Mutsi said:Some folks say they found the higgs boson
Yes, but no one could see it so it wouldn't matter if it were illuminated or not!Now assume that I would have a perfect cube of perfect mirrors and have an object in the center. In that case I would have an illuminated object for infinity. Right?
HallsofIvy said:Yes, but no one could see it so it wouldn't matter if it were illuminated or not!
If we want to argue about what could actually happen in practice, it comes back to not having perfect mirrors in the first place.pete20r2 said:No, wrong, that object would absorb and re-radiate energy as a different wavelength, probably heat, and escape the mirrors, conductively.
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