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Diffraction through a single slit: As we narrow the slit, diffraction dominates, spreading light out, revealing its wave-like nature. Widen the slit, and the beam straightens up, its width starts to mirror the slit, just as expected. #physics #optics #fourieroptics #light #photonics #python

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MTL1 year ago

now the double slit experiment makes sense to me

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World Scientific1 year ago

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softyoda1 year ago

If your bedroom were 4 OOM bigger, your windows would be pinhole to camera obscura.

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Tikhonov Roman1 year ago

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Adrianne Macdonald1 year ago

Is this what happens when rays of light pass through holes in the clouds? So it explains the angle of the rays. Shouldn’t this happen for every hole in the cloud/slit?

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Hans Chiu1 year ago

Yes, this happens every place at any time. However, the effect might be blurred out or interfere with the surroundings, forming different kinds of patterns.

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Your Subconscious1 year ago

Is it because when the light gets very close to objects they can exert their object gravity on the light?

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Hans Chiu1 year ago

Actually, light always bends around the corner; it's not due to gravity but the fact that light has wave-like properties.

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Exolab1 year ago

Conductive metallic surface ? I ask because light bends on the spike like a liquid flow

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Hans Chiu1 year ago

Although it is assumed that the material is metal, the light does not bend due to the metal itself. Instead, the light bends because it behaves as a wave ~

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Alex1 year ago

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