You can t trap light in a mirrored box as there are no perfect mirrors complicated dielectric mirrors can get to 99 999 reflectivity but only for a very small region of the spectrum.
Trap light in a mirror box.
The heck with fancy schmany 100 reflective mirrors or tri pole mirrors tuned to the turing frequency alan turing s debroglie wavelength at age 30.
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Photo courtesy of the researchers there are several ways to trap a beam of light usually with mirrors other reflective surfaces or high tech materials such as photonic crystals.
Just take a piece of aluminum foil mould it around you fist extract your hand hold the opening it up to a light and crimp closed fast as a flash.
To get that effect the hole in the mirror that light enters can t be much over 40 the.
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On the other hand it is possible to trap light by slowing it down.
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The easy way is to get two perfect mirrors and face them precisely at each other.
Light that enters the mirror gets bounced at increasing angles until it is reflected back and forth at a ninety degree angle from the entrance.
Scientists have devised several ways to trap light and save it.
Then you can bounce a beam of light back and.
If you can stop the light you ve trapped it.
I read an article dated some time before 1990 that described the shape for a curved mirror that would trap light.
Since light travels very fast it hits the walls of a little box very frequently.
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