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Subject: What happens to light?

Date: Sat Oct 18 22:46:27 1997
Posted by Jacob Tindall
Grade level: undergrad
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Area of science: Physics
ID: 877232787.Ph
Message:
Although I believe my question to be fairly basic I can't find a basic 
way to ask it...
When I turn a lamp on in my room the light from the bulb bounces off 
all the surfaces in the room then into my eye.  Ok, why does this 
light stop bouncing around when I turn the light off?  Does it turn 
into some other kind of light that the human eye can't see?  I have a 
bunch of ideas to what might cause this but i think it would save us 
both alot of time if you just told me.
Thanks in advance for your time.

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