Kari Kivisalo wrote:
> Surface properties are irrelevant, only the emitted energy matters.

It's the surface properties which determine the emitted energy.

> Put a sample of linoleum in a test bench and measure its
> photometric brightness at various distances. It will take a
> material considerably more exotic than linoleum to break the
> laws of physics :)

Take a chair, set it on a linoleum floor, then look at its
reflection.  You don't see the entire chair.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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