Why can't I catch light in a jar?
The reason is simple... The light you capture in the container is constantly moving... It moves to one side of the container and reflects off that side and then moves to the other side of the container... It is constantly reflecting from one side to the other... The problem with this multiple reflection situation is that with each reflection the light loses a little of its brightness... After a few thousand bounces all of the light is gone... A thousand bounces takes less than one millionth of a second...
Did the red light camera catch me?
I wasn't there, so I can't say. Wait about 2-4 weeks. If you don't get a ticket in the mail by then, you're in the clear. But the details in your question makes it sound like you stopped in time, and just backed up behind the line on the road. If so, then you should be okay since you didn't actually go through the intersection while the light was red.
Why can't we catch a beam of light?
Dear friend according to Higg's thoery photon doesn't have any mass …and according to Planks's quantum theory light is nothing but just packets of energy which is photon……so…..can u catch heat…no u can't and in the same way ..u can't catch beam of light
How do I catch light bulb thief? There is someone taking our bulb from one of lamppost outside the house.?
Are you kidding me, someone is stealing your light bulbs? My, God.... I swear people would steal dog poop if they could figure a way to use it. Anyway, you could try a video camera... that's about it. Don't do anything stupid like rigging up electricity to it or coating it with razor blades or the likes. Because then some dumb a$$ that comes to steal it... again.. gets hurt and he files a law suit against you! People have lost their minds!
Why can't we catch light and store it somewhere?
Whats the problem in doing that ?Light is just a form of energy.Let light fall on a Solar Cell.and then we can get that light energy again and re-use it.Easy.But we should keep one thing in my mind because we loose some of this energy1) Due to inefficiency of photovoltic cells(we may only increase it to a certain level only)2)We loose it in the form of heat from the wires.3)We again loose some of it due to internal resistance offered by the battery that stores the energy.I understand that it may not convince you because you might want to use the same captured light and not the light given by some other bulb.But my friend light is a wave so it means almost the same thing in its case basically what matters is the energy density that it carries with it.Also, i want to add that the way you want:-It happens in Black holes you know.The light after entering the Event Horizon of any black hole is then unable to escape it. It keeps on rotating around the black hole with decreasing radius and with each rotation it gets nearer and nearer to the point of singularity.What happens after it reaches the point of singularity,Nobody knows as of now.But a lot of theories are put forward,on brim of my thoughts there was one that said there is another universe inside a black hole.A Black Hole basically just acts as a sink of energy between universes.This made me a little satisfied in the crazy mysterious vibes that black holes give me.So to sum up,Yes it happens but its done on earth the way i explained in the upper part.ThankYou.
How many frames per second would be required to catch light moving on camera?
Ramesh Rasker, researcher at MIT Media Labs has already done this. His research involves capturing light in motion. According to him it requires frame speeds of 1000000000000 frames per second to capture light in motion. That is a whopping 1 trillion frames per second.Please watch this video of Ramesh explaining his research.
If I could travel faster than the speed of light, can I catch up to the 5 year old me, and catch up to light that left me many years ago?
This is curious…I have been thinking about language, time and perspective.Given FTL travel…. hmmm. let’s dispense with ‘travel.’ Let’s just create instantaneous teleportation. OK?Presently we see into the past, stuck right here on earth, so the physical action is not different. We see light rays emitted in the past.If we teleport to a planet 10 lt yrs away and point our super telescope at earth., then Yes ! We see you, 10 years younger. We watch as though someone had given us a very long video. Of course, it would take 10 years to see it. After that, we would see time progress, with new events, just as we do now.Now how is that different? OH! We have merely shifted our viewpoint..and moved 10 years into the future!First, viewpoint - Hey, we can go anywhere with teleportation, right? We could shift our viewpoint to the edge of the observable universe. I.E., the earliest moment in our history. Could we see beyond..and see some of the whole universe? The ‘extent’ universe that ‘ran away’ from us? (due to cosmic expansion averaging FTL.) Sure, IMHO.Now, time. Assume our new location is in the physical area is 17 B lt yrs away from our present location (that is, from earth…). No big deal, except that we would lose access to the era that spans from 1.6 billion years of evolution…to 18.6 billion years.See…in teleporting ourselves to the outer edge of our present observable universe…we really go back in time. And..worse, we would gain no new knowledge, we would just repeat the observations.So that’s the answer. FTL travel is the “great repeater…” Not so different than near light speed travel. “Let the past catch up with us.”Nothing worth doing. Other than a possible new viewpoint. Which might bring new insights into the mystery of ‘what lies beyond the the edge..”*So that’s it. FTL travel is just the “big repeater.”Mother Gaia: “Pat, give us a break. Shut up !” Pat: “Give ME a break…YOU equipped us with these damn big brains…and then gave us a clear view of the stars..”*BTW, for those whose minds wander. If my reading is correct, there has never been a point in our history (except before Guth Expansion) when our ‘observable universe’ was as large, or larger than the ‘extent universe.’Hey, thanks for the question.
How come when ur in a hurry, you catch every red light possible?
It's called Murphy's Law. Maybe if you hit all the green lights you would end up where you shouldn't be: an accident or some such thing. It's been proved that people who hurry tend to be more reckless than those who allow for traffic jams and road construction.
If you could somehow catch a light beam inside of a box with internal mirrors on all sides, would the light stay trapped inside the box? Could you open it in a dark room and be exposed to a brief amount of light?
No, light dissipates and it will eventually be absorbed so I don’t think you will be able to trap it.