It's A Lovely Day

And there is no looking back. And there is no looking ahead. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. That means that heaven will look a lot like my apartment.

I like the electric purple glow from the high powered plant light that I have trained upon my plants on a schedule of 12 hours on; 12 off, that I try to keep religiously.

Bobby told me to never look directly into this light; and further advised to not even look at the light after it has reflected off things; to put the plants in a tin-foil lined closet, with the tin foil there as much to protect you from the light as to perpetually reflect it inside the closet. I wonder if, in a room with wall to wall mirrors, a "beam" of light could bounce around for weeks, maybe years.

I guess that would depend upon the "absorption" properties of the mirrors. I'm sure that glass isn't a perfect conduit of light, otherwise we wouldn't be able to tell if there was glass in a window by looking at it. And, I'm sure that the polished surface that reflects light heats up or in some other way steals a bit of energy; the beam doesn't bounce back possessing exactly the same amount of energy, it isn't a perfect reflection, not in this universe.

But, it would have to be doing the same speed. Who ever heard of anything bouncing back off anything, without losing speed?

Those really hard rubber balls that sometimes came in marble patterns, called Superballs, I think I recall. If you dropped them from 4 feet off the ground, they would seem to bounce all the way back to your hand. But it wouldn't; otherwise, you could walk away, and the ball would continue bouncing 4 feet high, forever.

Some of the energy is translated into the sound of the bouncing ball that you will be able to hear. Interesting here, too, is that those Superballs were about the quietest rubber balls available. They almost made no noise. Hence, not a lot of energy was usurped from the ball when it bounced.

 I think the aberration would come when the ray of light happened to hit in a corner where one wall's mirror met the other. Then that beam would bounce from corner to corner. This is probably about as impossible as the perpetual bouncing ball...

So, the light would be doing the same speed, but would by physical law, have had to have lost some energy; probably exited the atoms that it reflected off of. So it would have lost this energy in its mass and so I guess rays of light in a mirror room would just keep getting smaller until there is nothing left of them...which would take an infinite amount of time, and theoretically never happen.

There are a lot of such situations in this universe, like the number being divided in half over and over, ostensibly to get it to zero. But, of course, after you cut it in half, there would still be the other half, waiting to be cut in half...