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Re: blackbody radiation

In a message dated 4/26/2004 11:12:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jsd@AV8N.COM writes:

Wien
tells us the shape but not the overall magnitude. The
lasers would almost certainly be too bright; right shape,
excessive magnitude.

Suppose the laser light could be attenuated in some manner so the magnitude was correct. Perhaps the mechanism responsible for attenuating would heat the box up to the proper black body temperature?

Justin Parke
Oakland Mills High School
Columbia, MD