Comment Re:double-A photon batteries... (Score 2) 93
This is the only way I could think of it happening:
The light from a candle (or, actually, probably a laser) would hit a mirror at such at angle that it got reflected back to *almost* the same spot, then *almost* the same spot on the other mirror, and then *between* the first two spots on the first mirror, and eventually it would all be funnelled kindof into one thin line.
Kindof like when we put the automatic pool cleaner in my pool, and at first it works, but then it just goes straight across and back, and we have one clean strip, and crap across the rest of our pool.
This way, the light would never actually hit the candle/laser/whatever.
However, they say it is an *almost* perfect mirror. This means that it's not really perfect, and even if it reflects. 99.999999999999999999% of the light, with the speed that light moves it would all be gone in a fraction of a second. (probalby, it's summer, I refuse to do the real math.)
And, btw, to test if the light was there, you just stick your hand in the box. If there's a blinding flash of light and your hand turns black and charred, it worked.
The light from a candle (or, actually, probably a laser) would hit a mirror at such at angle that it got reflected back to *almost* the same spot, then *almost* the same spot on the other mirror, and then *between* the first two spots on the first mirror, and eventually it would all be funnelled kindof into one thin line.
Kindof like when we put the automatic pool cleaner in my pool, and at first it works, but then it just goes straight across and back, and we have one clean strip, and crap across the rest of our pool.
This way, the light would never actually hit the candle/laser/whatever.
However, they say it is an *almost* perfect mirror. This means that it's not really perfect, and even if it reflects. 99.999999999999999999% of the light, with the speed that light moves it would all be gone in a fraction of a second. (probalby, it's summer, I refuse to do the real math.)
And, btw, to test if the light was there, you just stick your hand in the box. If there's a blinding flash of light and your hand turns black and charred, it worked.
