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If no light is getting out of my room when the light bulb is on, why isn't it getting brighter?

Lawrence wrote:If no light is getting out of my room when the light bulb is on, why isn't it getting brighter?

Look up black body radiation.

Tomo wrote:

Lawrence wrote:If no light is getting out of my room when the light bulb is on, why isn't it getting brighter?

Look up black body radiation.

I knew you'd come along and give a real answer and spoil my fun!
Give me the elevator pitch for black body radiation (sounds like made up tosh to me!)

Lawrence wrote:

Tomo wrote:

Lawrence wrote:If no light is getting out of my room when the light bulb is on, why isn't it getting brighter?

Look up black body radiation.

I knew you'd come along and give a real answer and spoil my fun!
Give me the elevator pitch for black body radiation (sounds like made up tosh to me!)

It's all to do with Maxwells equations, I think. Heat an object and it should get infinitely warm but doesn't. Black bodies absorb energy and give it out again as heat.

Your room isn't a good a black body because it reflects much of the light. It's also connected to the rest of the universe, so the heat won't stay in the walls and objects for long. Remember the old plastic dustbin that used to get warm when we had proper hot summers? It's a better example of a black body doing its groovy thing.

OK, so they dissapate with interaction with other stuff.
With you!

The first 3 posts of this thread make me so happy!

I blame the government.

Are you using LED technology

Antera wrote:Are you using LED technology

I got these new fangled things called "lightbulbs"

But the new technology called LED gives out a much reduced light or lumens i think is the correct word

The old Incandescent bulbs are much better on the eye as well

The new energy lamps and LED have been blamed for sleep problems due to the peaks and troughs of the lightwave. ( Also some cancers are being blamed on the new buls as they effect hormone production it seems)

Blue light is not good a night ... beware.

Good grief

Antera wrote:
The new energy lamps and LED have been blamed for sleep problems due to the peaks and troughs of the lightwave.

I tend to turn my lights OFF when I go to sleep.

cartorious wrote: I tend to turn my lights OFF when I go to sleep.

For the win!

the point is that LED light can bu**er your internal clock up and so you cant get to sleep even after you turn the light off

Its scientifically proven dear boy

fair enough.......I googled it (what did we do before the internet???) and found some interesting stuff


http://www.gizmag.com/go/1848/ .....this for example is a concept to battle jetlag and insomnia....clever

cartorious wrote:I googled it (what did we do before the internet???)

Proper research