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A flashlight beam hits a mirror, and the spot on the wall jumps across the room. A dark window becomes reflective after sunset. The Moon looks bright enough to cast shadows, even though it does not make visible light of its own. These are not separate tricks of light—they are different outcomes of the same …
In the mass‑acceleration lab at Purdue, we had a pyramid made of duct tape rolls—nine to a level, stacked into a 3×3‑foot base. Halfway up was a note that read, “Order more duct tape.” We grinned like lunatics every time we saw it. It wasn’t art—it was infrastructure. That tape kept the mass accelerator patched, …