infinite nothing?

Question

if you have a hollow sphear with 100percent reflectav mirrors inside,a camora [coverd in 100pcr mirrors]that givs info to a screen without interfeering with the light also inside,what would you see if you introdused light into the sphear and it couldent escape?

Answer 1

would make an interesting experiment

Answer 2

There are lots of problems with your question.
I will assume that your sphere is a polyhedron since you would need a flat surface to not disperse the light. And that this polyhedron was constructed in such a way that you would have enough time to slam the 100pct reflective door shut before the light had to bounce off that point.
But the dispersion would still be the issue.
Every time the light bounced, the reflection would be of an apparently further and further away light source and therefore dimmer and dimmer over time. Now you are probably saying, where is it dispersed to? Wouldn't it be reflected by another mirror and therefore preserved? This gets down to the essential nature of light. In order to have infinite reflection, you would have to trap the light in a stable, closed system matrix, because light is like sharks, if it doesn't move, it dies, er, ceases to exist.

Ok, I will rephrase your question again.
Suppose you can introduce light into a closed system that may or may not be spheroid and is composed of 100pct reflective components that are shaped in such a way that refocuses the light to prevent dispersion. Preventing dispersion would essentially mean magnifying the reflection of the light source so it appeared life size at the point of reflection. This means that the reflection of the light source would be shared among all of the reflective surfaces and would be dimmer in some proportion to the area of the mirrors. Everywhere you looked, would be a dim reflection of the light source.
Assuming any dispersion at all would produce the opposite effect of a perhaps increased duration of the presence of a reflection and giving the appearance of the light source moving away from the viewer at a very rapid pace and leaving darkness.

Isn't it peculiar to think that light is invisible?
We can only observe a direct hit on our eyes. Light passing right in front of us is undetectable.

Isn't it peculiar that scientists have actually frozen photons?
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf/topics/lightfreeze/lightfreeze.html

Answer 3

There are many forms of light, The eyes of many species perceive wavelengths different from the spectrum visible to the human eye. For example, many insects, such as bees, can see light in the ultraviolet, which is useful for finding nectar in flowers. For this reason, plant species whose life cycles are linked to insect pollination may owe their reproductive success to their appearance in ultraviolet light, rather than how colorful they appear to our eyes.

Nevertheless: all light travels at the same speed (the speed of light) in a vacuum and so I assume that in the sphere is a vacuum.

Therefore the refractive index is a constant, as long as the source that emits the light is constant...

Answer 4

That depends on just how reflective the mirrors are. If they are truly 100% reflective, all photons will remain in motion and not lose energy, as the collisions with the mirrors are perfectly elastic.

Answer 5

Light, then dark. The photons would have to give up energy every time they collided with something.