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I realize that a two way mirror does let light pass through both ways - just at a lesser level on one than the other. Let's state that it is possible to create a perfectly spherical 2 way mirror ball with the reflective surface (silver nitrate?) on the inside. Let's also state that we have a camera with a framerate in the billions per second area. Now we were to shine a high powered light source into the ball then turn it off. Upon viewing the playback, would the ball seem to slowly get dimmer as the light dissipated or would it instantly lose light at the same time the source did? If it were to slowly dissipate, what if you were able to place that ball into another sphere that instead had a pure mirroring surface on the inside before ALL the light dissipated - would it be able to "store" light, even if just for a moment? Would it have to be a vacuum?
Re: How fast does light dissipate in a 2 way spherical mirror?
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