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 meckano Send message Joined: 17 Sep 04 Posts: 150 Credit: 20,315 RAC: 0 |
Has anyone tried running light round and round a circle, fiber-optic for example, while continuing to add light; to see if the optic ever gets 'full'? ----------------------- Click to see my tag My tag SNAFU'ed? Turn the Page! :D |
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The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 309 Credit: 715,258 RAC: 0 |
It would melt....you need to define your starting conditions more rigidly. Live long and crunch! Paul. |
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meckano Send message Joined: 17 Sep 04 Posts: 150 Credit: 20,315 RAC: 0 |
can you give me examples? ----------------------- Click to see my tag My tag SNAFU'ed? Turn the Page! :D |
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The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 309 Credit: 715,258 RAC: 0 |
Nope...but some light is always absorbed by the cable and transfered to heat (?), put enough down there and........ |
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Chrulle Send message Joined: 27 Jul 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 1,880 RAC: 0 |
Theoretically there is no limit to how many photons you could cram into an ideal ring. This is because light consist of photons. Photons are spin-0 gauge bosons. That is: They are force transfer particles. Particles that have integer spin (0,1,2...) can be put in the same state, and you can therefore put as many in the ring as you want. Spin-½ particles behave very differently. There you can only have one in the same state. This is why the innermost shell of an atom can only contain two electrons. There is room for one with spin up and one with spin down. But then the next electron we try to put in there would have to have the same state as one of the two that are already there and that is not possible. Chrulle Research Assistant & Ex-LHC@home developer Niels Bohr Institute |
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meckano Send message Joined: 17 Sep 04 Posts: 150 Credit: 20,315 RAC: 0 |
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Chrulle Send message Joined: 27 Jul 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 1,880 RAC: 0 |
no problem. It is good to know that all those hours of studying quantum mechanics payed off. ;-) btw. generally the integer spin particles are called bosons and these particles do force transfers: fx. photon (Electromagnetism) gluon (strong nuclear force).. Those that have half-integer spin are called fermions and are the particles that make up all the stuff around you. like electrons, protons, neutrons .. Chrulle Research Assistant & Ex-LHC@home developer Niels Bohr Institute |
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