GR translation: lighted from inside like ice

[Mark Kohut]

.... under normal conditions, the white of the polar ice reflects light
energy back to space,


The same happens as light enters a piece of ice: it will bend. Now, if you
just have one solid sheet of ice, the bending isn't much and neither is the
reflection off the ice's surface; most of the light penetrates the ice, and
the ice appears clear.

These [ice] crystals can have any rotation orientation about their axis,
causing reflections from many different ice crystals to reach your eye from
many different angles left and right from the sun (Fig. 22.21). In other
words, they act as a large number of small mirrors.Dec 14, 2024



On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V460.18-23, P468.3-7   One of them has produced a huge meat cleaver, and is
> winding up all right, amid much vivacious laughing, at about which point
> somebody grabs hold of Slothrop’s ankle. He looks down, observes sticking
> out a porthole two slender wrists in silver and sapphires, lighted from
> inside like ice, and the oily river rushing by underneath.
>
> What does "lighted from inside like ice" mean here?
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