if u had a box with mirrors on the inside of it an shined a beam of light into it would that light eluminate the box 4ever..
2006-10-12 00:36:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Yes, if you could make a seamless box of mirrows, and the mirrows is 100% reflective. There could be absoption by air molecules also.
2006-10-12 00:57:12 · answer #1 · answered by LJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it would not the light engery would be used up a bit at a time by the mirrors relfecting it because light goes really fast it wound not take all that long
2006-10-12 00:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by Ben 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think so - the mirrors just reflect the light that the light source creates, once that source has gone they stop reflecting - they cannot keep on bouncing it around when there is not active source. I'm no physicist though.
2006-10-12 00:46:38 · answer #3 · answered by peggy*moo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
light is not 100% reflected by a mirror, part of it is absorbed by the material of the mirror,
so, after a very very very short time light will disappear
2006-10-12 04:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by latif_1950 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
beam of light is just like photons travel in straith line....let say if you turn lthe light on 1 second, 100 photons fly out and hit the mirror....and it reflect around in the box...If you turn the light of, no photons shoot out....than no light to be reflect. .........................all light reflection in the box is just one beam straight line, but you bend it by the mirrors.............
2006-10-12 01:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would stop.
And one more thing, How could it "eluminate" the box, if it's inside is made of mirrors?
2006-10-12 00:45:19 · answer #6 · answered by DWReyes 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only till the batteries ran out
2006-10-12 00:39:44 · answer #7 · answered by OriginalBubble 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋