Put in a brighter light.
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Why do bad things happen to good people?
- Thread starter stealth82
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What if you have the brightest lights?
Then put in two, or design and build a brighter one.
Revoltistanian proverb:
Things which happen just happen, & they don't care to whom they happen.
Things which happen just happen, & they don't care to whom they happen.
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What if there is no way to build a brighter one or put 2 in?
We have a winner :clap: Can we all go home now?
That depends; why is there no way?
If you're talking about reaching the limits of human ability, well, this is a thought experiment. For this discussion, those limits don't matter.
If you're talking about reaching some fundamental limit of how much light can be created - the "absolute brightness" I talked about before - then I'd ask you to justify why you think such a limit exists.
Light is a wave. The higher the amplitude the brighter the light. Therefore if you filled a room with photons of the highest amplitude possible that would be close to, if not, absolute light.
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
There isn't a highest amplitude possible, AFAIK. Then again, I'm not entirely sure what the amplitude of a photon corresponds to. Also, it is impossible to fill a room; I can always put more photons in.
Exactly why absolute light is impossible to physically create. Hypothetically however....
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
you're metaphor carries over the properties of the things you are comparing. If the thing you are comparing doesn't behave how you thought it did, your metaphor is rubbish.
eh? too many big words for me to understand xD
Wait - so you're imagining some scenario where the room is packed full of photons? How much volume does a photon take up?
What is the "highest amplitude possible" for a photon? Is there one?
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
"C is to D as A is to B" doesn't actually make sense if A and B don't have anything in common.
Oh I see. So photons don't actually take up space
silly me 
Good point. It'd be infinity wouldn't it? and as infinity doesn't exist..... hmmm
Oh I see
can you measure infinity in the real world?
Measurements don't "take up space," they are a concept.
The true measure of the "real world" is its practicality.
In which case, what definition of exist are you using?