Why doesn't my reflection follow the inverse square law ?

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billvon said:
Nothing. The light reflects anyway, as several people have pointed out.

But if you care WHAT YOU SEE, your eyes are pretty important, don't you think?
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Our eyes are the pinnacle of observation , indeed they are very important .

The Sun does not reflect light , it emits light ?

Why does the Sun look ''orange'' in colour when the light emitted is a mixture of frequencies?
 
Jerimiah said:
Our eyes are the pinnacle of observation , indeed they are very important .

The Sun does not reflect light , it emits light ?

Why does the Sun look ''orange'' in colour when the light emitted is a mixture of frequencies?
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This is all quite irrelevant. If you want to discuss these issues, they need a separate thread.
 
exchemist said:
This is all quite irrelevant. If you want to discuss these issues, they need a separate thread.
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The thread topic is about the inverse square law and reflections which are light based events . Light is the topic and rather than spamming the forum with individual threads on light , isn't it more suiting to keep to one thread when the subject material is light ?
The question is very relevant in consideration of the photon electrical effect ! The reflection in a mirror has spectral content (colour) .
The Sun emits light rather than having incident rays strike the surface , unlike the mirrors image . How can the photon electrical effect apply to the sun , allowing us to observe visually an ''orange'' colour ?
I personally think we have something wrong in regards to how light works !
 
Jerimiah said:
... and rather than spamming the forum with individual threads ...
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Perhaps you might finish with one question before starting another.

In fact, someone predicted you'd go off on a new tangent before your first questions were answered. They must be psychic.
 
Jerimiah said:
The thread topic is about the inverse square law and reflections which are light based events . Light is the topic and rather than spamming the forum with individual threads on light , isn't it more suiting to keep to one thread when the subject material is light ?
The question is very relevant in consideration of the photon electrical effect ! The reflection in a mirror has spectral content (colour) .
The Sun emits light rather than having incident rays strike the surface , unlike the mirrors image . How can the photon electrical effect apply to the sun , allowing us to observe visually an ''orange'' colour ?
I personally think we have something wrong in regards to how light works !
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No. The topic is the inverse square law and reflection, not any old crap you care to dream up about light.

But this behaviour of yours is indeed what I predicted.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Perhaps you might finish with one question before starting another.

In fact, someone predicted you'd go off on a new tangent before your first questions were answered. They must be psychic.
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My first question was answered but was the answer satisfactory enough to satisfy my curiousness ?

The Inverse square law is related to lights intensity , Exchemist - ''It is brightness that decreases with the square of distance from a source.''

The answer was part satisfactory but I must still question the mechanics of reflected mirror images . In doing so I may have to go down other ''paths'' to find a satisfactory answer . From my studies I can conclude that we only observe visual constant frequencies of light (colour) . We cannot and do not observe the random frequency of light travelling between sources . Reflections in a mirror are visual constants , the information of an objects colour changes from constant to random before becoming a constant again in the mirror while the light travels from A to B . How can a mirror even ''work'' at all ? How does the mirror reflect the source image when the incident rays are random frequencies ?
 
exchemist said:
No. The topic is the inverse square law and reflection, not any old crap you care to dream up about light.

But this behaviour of yours is indeed what I predicted.
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I am not dreaming up anything , every thing I have mentioned are real points and asks !
 
Jerimiah said:
The Sun does not reflect light , it emits light ?
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It does both. But the amount it emits is far, far, far higher than the light it reflects.
Why does the Sun look ''orange'' in colour when the light emitted is a mixture of frequencies?
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Because of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere. (That's also why the sky is blue.)
The question is very relevant in consideration of the photon electrical effect !
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That is a completely different phenomenon.
but I must still question the mechanics of reflected mirror images
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You can question whatever you like. All your questions have been answered. If you refuse to accept the answers, so be it. But that's on you.
 
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