What would happen if a light source was lite in a mirrored sphere?

August 29, 2010 by homelighting · 1 Comment
Filed under: Physics 
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Arch Teryx asked:


I’ve wondered about this before. It’s purely hypothetical and some variables must have restraints placed on them eg. the light source can’t absorb any energy nor can it impead the reflection. Second one has the ability to look in without light escaping.

That said if a white light went off inside a mirrored sphere what would be the resulting effect. There would be infinite recursion from a infinite number of angles. Would interferance of various wavelengths cause a color shift or would there be a centralized ball of light.

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