chee321, MEMBER 19, Singapore 204 points (CARBON)		April 22, 2012 17:53 Yes, definitely. Think about this logically. If there is total internal reflection going on in all sides of the diamonds and none of the light escapes, you wont be able to see the diamond glaring in the first place. So you can say that in commercial diamonds, total internal reflection is not happening in all the sides of the diamond. Diamond with its high density, it causing it to have a very low critical angle which means that light entering the diamond, would keep on bouncing off the inside of the diamond until one that hits below the critical angle. And most of the time, diamonds are cut to the extent light enters and exit only at the top of the diamond which makes it so desirable to people due to it being so glaring because all the light is exiting at one point. In theory I would say that if you were to create something that allows total internal reflection to happen all around the object, light would still be able to exit the way it was first entering the object.
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Yes, definitely. Think about this logically. If there is total internal reflection going on in all sides of the diamonds and none of the light escapes, you wont be able to see the diamond glaring in the first place. So you can say that in commercial diamonds, total internal reflection is not happening in all the sides of the diamond.
Diamond with its high density, it causing it to have a very low critical angle which means that light entering the diamond, would keep on bouncing off the inside of the diamond until one that hits below the critical angle. And most of the time, diamonds are cut to the extent light enters and exit only at the top of the diamond which makes it so desirable to people due to it being so glaring because all the light is exiting at one point. 
In theory I would say that if you were to create something that allows total internal reflection to happen all around the object, light would still be able to exit the way it was first entering the object.

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