Tomassci to Ask [email protected] • 1 year agoOkay, but how actually do mirrors reflect light?message-square7fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareOkay, but how actually do mirrors reflect light?Tomassci to Ask [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
Light is made of photons, so how do mirrors put the photons on a route that follows the law of reflection?
minus-squareTomassciOPlinkfedilink1•1 year agoThat is indeed true, but how do you redirect a wave with what is just a bunch of atoms? Do you reradiate it?
minus-square@toasteranimationlink1•1 year agoNo, the wave is just bouncing off the atoms in the mirror, same as sound would
minus-squareTomassciOPlinkfedilink1•1 year agoI don’t that’s how it works, after all it’s a different scale and quantum mechanical
That is indeed true, but how do you redirect a wave with what is just a bunch of atoms? Do you reradiate it?
No, the wave is just bouncing off the atoms in the mirror, same as sound would
How does that work?
See Newton’s Laws
I don’t that’s how it works, after all it’s a different scale and quantum mechanical
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