Trapping Light In A Box

Lightning Trigger: A Lichtenberg figure being created by a tap from a nail. In just a few hundred nanoseconds, electrons trapped in plastic exit suddenly as a bright, branching spark.

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+6 1. Burimi commented 10 years ago

What kind of box it is? Glass box?
No description!

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+19 2. dushan commented 10 years ago

#1 FYI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure

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+7 3. Burimi commented 10 years ago

#2 Hvala (thanks)

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+9 4. HellsVacancy commented 10 years ago

I should of added a description, sorry.

I was watching some old rubbish Hellraiser film and in the film some dude trapped light in a box using mirrors, I wondered if it was possible and found this experiment

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+5 5. loadrunner commented 10 years ago

I don't know what it is but I want it.

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+2 6. ringmaster commented 10 years ago

1:27 Sauron?

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+4 7. GlasgowBorn commented 10 years ago

I remember the start of the video but then all of a sudden it was the end

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+3 8. drunkmonk commented 10 years ago

Does anybody know how to make one?

Thank you in advance.

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+2 9. jackDjohnson commented 10 years ago

that is fascinating !! looks alot like tree branches !!