2006-08-08 11:59:58 · 27 answers · asked by DEREK S 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Everytime light reflects, a little bit of it gets absorbed by the surface it's bouncing off of (even from mirrors). (Try putting two mirrors facing each other, you'll see a LOT of reflections, but them getting darker and darker b/c each time, some light gets absorbed).
When you turn off the lights, since light moves so fast, it bounces literally billions of times almost instantly, and in those billions of times it gets absorbed and disappears and the room darkens.
2006-08-08 12:04:12 · answer #1 · answered by ymingy@sbcglobal.net 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Light is photones, which are tiny particles. As soon as you swith the light off, particles are no nonger emitted from the bulb. Very last ones that escaped get absorbed into the walls and the floor of the room, and that's it, no more. You don't see it because it happens very very fast: they travel at 300000000 m/s you have no way of "tracing" the last one's of them.
You can also think of light as waves. If you have a rope in your hand and you attanch the other end to the door knob, you can make waves. If you stop moving your hand, where do the waves go? Well, they just stop.
* Light is particles (called photones) and it is also waves (electro-magnetic waves) at the same time. For future studies.
* Food for thought: the stars you see - it is actully light that was emitted long time ago. The star may be no longer there, but light is still coming your way.
2006-08-08 19:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a joke question, right? The light already went, at 186,000 miles per second, thataway. Off into space. You only see light when zillions of photons are packed together and they bounce off the retinas in your eyes. Once light dissipates, you can't see it anymore. That doesn't mean that those photons produced by the light don't exist anymore. Some of those photons may already have passed the moon less than two seconds after you've turned off the light.
2006-08-08 19:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light reflects to make color so when u turn off the light and it gets dark the light don't reflect so the light is still in the room.
2006-08-08 19:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by mexicanjumpingborder 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darkness is the absence of light. Cold, of heat. Stupidity of intelligence, etc. The light does not "go" anywhere, there is just a requirement of a constant stream of light energy to continue illuminating the atmosphere. I bet you are going to pick one of the stupid "in the tub" answers though.
2006-08-08 19:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a theory about light. It's like nothing I've ever heard, so I think I'll save it for my next essay. If I discuss it now, people would just ridicule it, start raddling off complex equasions and quoting their favorite professors, afterwhich they'd tell me dt do more research and go back to being miserable.
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2006-08-08 19:06:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you turn off the light, it stops using current to light the bulb, and therefore just doesnt make light. its like when you turn off the water faucet, the water is still there, its just not coming out of the faucet
2006-08-08 19:04:53 · answer #7 · answered by Bensius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it turn it off, the blub simply stop emitting light that is all. Just like turning off the hose and it stop spraying water.
2006-08-08 23:44:55 · answer #8 · answered by ET 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is still there but without the light you cannot see it !
2006-08-08 19:04:40 · answer #9 · answered by any 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein wondered the same thing.
The light is absorbed into the walls and subsequently dissipated as heat.
2006-08-08 19:07:11 · answer #10 · answered by Kenstheman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋