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#9355By this idea will be stolen on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:50 pm

Hey I was thinking of something, what if you had a sphere, except that it was made of the glass they use at police stations (see through it from one side and it reflects on the other). What if you had a layer that was kind of thick on the outside. The mirror side of the glass would be faced inwards. you could have a series of layers in the sphere.

Now, what would happen if you shined a very bright and intensive light on it for a few minutes then immediatly shattered it strongly against a wall or something?
Would a bunch of light explode out?

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#9369By Carlan on Monday, July 24, 2006 - 12:56 pm

This-idea-will-be-stolen, you say a sphere made up of multiple layers of one-way glass each layer of glass would be made thick on the outside and each layer of glass would have their mirror side facing in and a very intense and bright light beam would be directed at the sphere for several minutes and then, the sphere would be strongly cast against the wall and smashed to smithereens and you ask, “Would a bunch of light explode out?”. I don’t know? I don’t know because I am not smart enough to know such things. I would say that the answer to your question could lie in the many variables that you haven’t made clear to us as yet. In other words, you don’t tell us enough information about for example the exact size of the sphere or the exact thick nesses of each layer of glass and to what degree of reflective material is to be required and how are the layers to be applied or connected to one another and what is the source of the emitted light and over what area is this concentrated light to cover the globe and when we smash the globe at what velocity will the globe be thrown and what will be the atmospheric pressure and what will be the temperature required where this smashing event takes place? I am sure there are many other questions that need to be answered before a layperson like me could venture an answer to your question but off the top of my head I would say that the simple answer is that no explosion of light would occur but the complex answer would be, yes, an explosion of light would occur and another black hole would be created.