How does a skyscraper melt a car? Wow!
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How DOES a skyscraper melt a car?
"It's like starting a fire with a parabolic mirror.
Fundamentally it's reflection. If a building creates enough of a curve with a series of flat windows, which act like mirrors, the reflections all converge at one point, focusing and concentrating the light,' says Chris Shepherd, from the Institute of Physics.
The half-finished 37-storey "Walkie Talkie"- nicknamed such because of its tapering rectangular design - is indeed a curvy building. Its design, which has also been compared to a brimming pint glass, has provoked controversy before.
It transpires the car, a Jaguar on Eastcheap in the City of London, was parked at just the spot where the focused light landed."
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While melting parts of a Jaguar is newsworthy, turns out this overheating phenomenon HAS happened before. Here's the complete story:
Who, what, why: How does a skyscraper melt a car?
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