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So you have a hollow sphere
>The inside of the sphere is a perfect reflective surface
>You somehow introduce a light source to the center of the sphere without creating a surface for the light to be absorbed
What happens?

>> No.5411575

Even a reflective surface would be heated up by the light. It would lose energy, eventually.

>> No.5411576

>>5411561

you get a bunch of autists screaming that your hypothetical experiment is impossible on /sci/

>> No.5411589

>>5411561
>What happens?
The light intensity increases until particle synthesis happens, a particle strikes your mirror and everything cataclysmically explodes due to cascading imperfections after this.

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>> No.5411594

>>5411576
I gotta admit, I lol'd

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>> No.5411597

>>5411589
And thus the universe was formed

>> No.5411598

>>5411575
This.

Also, nothing will reflect perfectly. Your light will be absorbed eventually

>> No.5411599

>What happens?
This >>5411589
Or depending on the spheres material strength, radiation pressure could blow it apart.

>> No.5411705

the energy souce for the light needs to be inside the sphere (a battery for example) and can only provide a limited ammount of energy, so after a while the battery will transform its entire chemical energy into light, which ( sooner or later) will hit the lamp or the battery, get absorbed and emitted with a lower frequency.

Photons with lower frequency can tunnel easier and will leave the sphere, leading to an exponential decay of the remaining inergy inside.

>> No.5411717

<span class="deadlink">>>5411600[/spoiler]
you need to be very quick for that to work
a 1m3 mirrorbox with a reflective index of 0.999999 would absorb 25% of the light every millisecond

>> No.5411763

>>5411705
>will hit the lamp or the battery, get absorbed and emitted with a lower frequency.

>>introduce a light source to the center of the sphere without creating a surface for the light to be absorbed

>> No.5413274

Guys, what would happen if the Harry Potter series were true? Speaking theoretically of course, and don't get mad at me, I used a scientific word in there so it's ok.

>> No.5413303

>>5413274
first we will have to define how magic exactly works, which isnt said in the book.