bounce

When I was a child, I was bounced from children's home to children's home.

If you bounce a if you bounce a basketball that's full of air, it's going to bounce higher than one that's not as blown up.

So firstly, why not just put giant mirrors in space and bounce the sun's rays away?

Instead, astronomers use the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, an echo of the early universe, which involves low-energy photons bouncing around everywhere in all directions, all the time.