Physicists at MIT have created the first perfect mirror. When light hits the mirror -- or indeed any other kind of wave, including acoustic and water waves -- it bounces off perfectly, introducing no ...

Scientists at MIT just announced that they have created the perfect mirror – and it could signal a breakthrough for solar power technology. The team’s “perfect mirror” is capable of reflecting any ...

Originally posted by caustic meatloaf: Hmm. Well, There has been proof that photons can exert pressure on physical objects, because they DO have momentum. Momentum can be converted to kinetic energy.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory can sense movements thousands of times tinier than the nucleus of an atom, partly because of the instrument’s near-perfect mirrors. The mirrors ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers from the United States, Austria, and Switzerland has demonstrated the first true supermirrors in the mid-infrared spectral region. These mirrors ...

Highly reflective mirrors help telescopes capture images of faint, distant galaxies and enable lasers to produce intense beams of light. Researchers have come up with a new way to make such mirrors, ...

I think we had a thread like this some years back, but it got me thinking again: what would happen if two perfect mirrors faced each other? By perfect I mean 100% reflectivity with no distortion or ...