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Query:

Subject: Could you trap light in a perfect mirror-box and release it later?

Date: Tue Apr 7 01:43:24 1998
Posted by Grant Boggs
Grade level: other
School: Life
City: Wilburton State/Province: OK
Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 891931404.Ph
Message:

I always thought it an interesting question.  Perhaps because I'm not 
a physics man.

Suppose we had a "perfect" mirror substance that would reflect light 
perfectly.  

If we made a cube of this with a lid, took it out into the sunshine, 
opened it, then closed it.  Could we capture some sunshine?  Then take 
the box to a dark room and open it and experience a brief flash of 
light as the trapped sunshine escaped?


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