Saturday 7 March 2020

optics - What can we deduce by the fact that mirrors cannot get a ray hotter than Sun's surface?


I think it is quite counter-intuitive that some lenses or mirrors focusing sunlight to a single spot cannot produce a temperature higher than Sun's Surface.


What could a scientist deduce from that peculiar behaviour? Any quantic property in example? Or something about optics?.




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