Question:(My mind rambles alot) if you created a chamber with a totally
mirrored surface and projected a laser beam into it then replaced the cover
where you shot the beam into the chamber at the instant the laser is shut
off.....would the laser beam continue to bounce around inside the chamber
or disappear???
Ok...common theory is that light if not blocked never stops travelling
along a path,
like shining a bright flashlight into the dark night sky. Tho once you shut
off the flashlight, the beam winks out. But the beam really has travelled
at 186,000 miles a second upwards into space and is still going.
What if the laser beam disappears totally when it's shut off even tho it
should be still bouncing around inside the mirrored chamber? Whats that say
about light?
I'd like to do this experiment, just to see what would happen. Tho I'd
imagine you'd have to have a perfectly round sphere for a chamber and the
mirrored surface inside would HAVE to be perfect.
If you could store light this way indefiantly....how much light could it
hold and could it be used in some way for power??
Sorry for my wild rambling thoughts....Remind me to ask about the acidity
of pine trees next time....It's a strange thought I had...will cover
tomorrow in next letter.
Billy M. Williams
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He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
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> From: Paul Brown <brownpm@concentric.net>
> To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz
> Subject: Re: Gold
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 1998 10:40 PM
>
> >By the way, they also reported on a accidental discovery by a student at
> >MIT
> >University, seems he was doing some type of experiment with pieces of
> >plastic of a certian type I can't recall at the moment. Anyway he
> >accidently spilled some sulpheric acid on it. It dried overnight and he
> >discovered his mistake the next day, but fortuantly he tested it and
found
> >to his amazment that it had stored a powerful electrical charge......a
> >cheap plastic battery....
> >I wonder what happened to this?
> >Was it hushed up? Covered up? Or did the Goverment buy it up? I havn't
seen
> >any rechargable plastic, cheap batteries on the market.
> >
> The plastic batteries are still under development. Althought they work in
> the lab, they have yet to be engineered for production line manucaturing.
> Energy density is good, but working life is short. All the promise of the
> light-weight plastic battery is still there, just not ready for market
yet.
> Paul Brown