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In the famous two-split experiment in your freshman college class, you learn that shining a light at a wall with two narrow slits causes a diffraction pattern.
Something that's always bothered me is in these ideal setups, we always assume the wall is a continuous barrier to the light. But the barrier is made up of a lattice of atoms. The interaction is never as simple as the idealized experiment. I'm curious as to what's actually going on between the light and the wall.
Something that's always bothered me is in these ideal setups, we always assume the wall is a continuous barrier to the light. But the barrier is made up of a lattice of atoms. The interaction is never as simple as the idealized experiment. I'm curious as to what's actually going on between the light and the wall.