📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

The wonderful sparkly Elite Christmas thread of love, dreams and glitches ©

1764765767769770992

Comments

  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,938 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    A question for you

    When you shine a laser at glass at an angle how come the light reflects and goes through the glass at the same time?
    Any material can do three things to light usually at the same time -some will be absorbed and the rest will reflect or be transmitted. Different materials do all three in different proportions making them coloured colourless transparent cloudy opaque dull shiny and so on. (used to teach physics- about 20 years ago before anyone asks more up-to-date questions).:D:D

    Doesn't help much with my ridiculous low score in the current quiz.
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • fairclaire
    fairclaire Posts: 22,698 Forumite
    A question for you

    When you shine a laser at glass at an angle how come the light reflects and goes through the glass at the same time?

    How can photons be in 2 places at once?

    :D

    huh? :rotfl::rotfl:
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    edited 7 January 2013 at 1:00AM
    A question for you

    When you shine a laser at glass at an angle how come the light reflects and goes through the glass at the same time?

    How can photons be in 2 places at once?

    :D

    Is it because Laser light is monochromatic?
    (edit, ignore, totally miss-read the question!!)
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • Good night all,
    got school run in morning and really need to get some sleep!
    SPC #329 £471/£500 banked
    SPC 2014 £1100:D
    Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light
    "Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
  • artha
    artha Posts: 5,254 Forumite
    FunkyFeet wrote: »
    really?

    oooh do share, I didn't know you could set 'number of posts per page'

    tia

    I'm on 40 posts/page so would have to work hard to do it. However if I set it to 5 posts/page I've done it several times. We need some rules:

    40 posts/page = Golden DM
    30 posts/page = Silver DM
    20 posts/page = Bronze DM
    10 posts/page = Amateur DM
    5 posts/page = Your avin a larf DM!
    Awaiting a new sig
  • pattylabelle
    pattylabelle Posts: 7,474 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    A question for you

    When you shine a laser at glass at an angle how come the light reflects and goes through the glass at the same time?

    How can photons be in 2 places at once?

    :D


    That is far far to high brow for us COT - have you been on the albali. It is US for goodness sake:eek:
    never stop doing your best because someone doesn't give you credit
  • Mildred1970
    Mildred1970 Posts: 4,794 Forumite
    Xmas Saver!
    A question for you

    When you shine a laser at glass at an angle how come the light reflects and goes through the glass at the same time?

    How can photons be in 2 places at once?

    :D

    Oh my days :eek:
    Isn't it something to do with you have to be standing in the direction that the laser light is bouncing off in order to see it, and then it looks like it's coming through the mirror? But I can't remember why it looks like that. Probably completely wrong, my 'O' level physics days were a loooong time ago :rotfl:
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    edited 7 January 2013 at 1:02AM
    :rotfl:
    artha wrote: »
    I'm on 40 posts/page so would have to work hard to do it. However if I set it to 5 posts/page I've done it several times. We need some rules:

    40 posts/page = Golden DM
    30 posts/page = Silver DM
    20 posts/page = Bronze DM
    10 posts/page = Amateur DM
    5 posts/page = Your avin a larf DM!
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • pattylabelle
    pattylabelle Posts: 7,474 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Whatever happened to Bobchorba - remember the guy who undressed the philly. He needs to go on the MIA list.
    never stop doing your best because someone doesn't give you credit
  • fairclaire
    fairclaire Posts: 22,698 Forumite
    Whatever happened to Bobchorba - remember the guy who undressed the philly. He needs to go on the MIA list.

    I Must have missed that :eek: I do remember him tho. I was thinking thrifty sister should be on that list
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 351.3K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.2K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.7K Spending & Discounts
  • 244.2K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 599.4K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 177.1K Life & Family
  • 257.7K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.2K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.