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If you shine a torch inside a box lined with mirrors, does the light bounce around forever?

If you have a hollow cube whose internal sides are made of perfectly reflecting mirrors, and you switch on a torch and wave it around, then turn it off, would the light keep bouncing around the cube or would it go dark? If it goes dark, where does the light go? If the light continues to bounce around, how long would it do so? This question has perplexed me since I was a boy.

Paul Harwood

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