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1690461 No.1690461 [Reply] [Original]

Hey guys check out this experiment I found.

What would happen if you produced a light in a metal sphere? This light is going to give off photons. The photons by refraction will bounce off the surface of the metal sphere continuously. Are the photons trapped in this sphere? What would happen if the metal sphere was opened suddenly?

>> No.1690468
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1690468

just get out

>> No.1690476

it would asplode

>> No.1690479

photons lose energy to metal in the form of heat, entropy wins.

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1690482

Hey /sci/, need help rearranging my room

>> No.1690504

>>1690479
Are you implying nothing would happen?

>> No.1690534

I was almost through the first page of /sci/ and thought 'what?, no troll threads?, what is this faggotry?' then here we are. Good work OP, or a second there i was worried that /sci/ was running out of troll threads.

>> No.1690536

Thats interesting. It seems to me that the photons would be in constant motion bouncing off the walls of the metal sphere.

>> No.1690545

there is no such thing as a perfect black body, the light would pass through the metal.

>> No.1690552

>>1690534
SOMEONE ISN'T AS SUPER DUPER SMART AS ME HES TROLLING

>> No.1690586

>>1690552
I thought you were serious before, but now I think you're trolling. trolls typicall type in all caps to make it seem like they are angry.

i know because i do it myself.

>> No.1690591

>>1690482
no I DO!

>> No.1690621

this is the secret of the universe

>> No.1690641

no troll guys

>> No.1690675

>>1690461
You mean

a lightbulb?

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1690680

>>1690675

>> No.1690746

1. photons degrade into electrons+heat
2. heat exits and electrons create an electric charge on said ball
3. if ball is isolated it will keep on charging forever or until electric potential is high enough to pass on to cables or channel where light comes from (implying light doesnt appear out of nowhere)