A ball mirror?
So...if you have two of these babies and you face them to eachother...what happens? Does it go supernova or something?
So, could you like put one on a ceiling?
parsy, who is thinking of engineering applications
...or light particles...
Very interesting. I remember a time when this kind of research would have come out of an American University. But of course our taxpayer money (greatest contribution the poor make to the upper classes is support of universities — whose annual budgets grow at a greater rate than healthcare — but what the heck — ) is now supporting the education of “community organizers” majoring in “ethnic studies” or “womens studies” or “socialization of [other peoples’] children, who would not deign to sully themselves with actually taking part in the despised world of commerce or engineering (unless its huts for the proles).
I’m trying to decide how this differs from a phase conjugate mirror.
Just keep these suckers out of department store dressing rooms. Nobody I know wants an enhanced view.
In flight test they have had these type of mirrors for years. Except they have been on a macro scale. Light hits the mirror and always goes back to the source. Corner Cube Reflectors (CCR). I suppose what makes this mirror different is that the corner cube reflection is happening on almost a molecular level.