Chuck Nice
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the air, or you hit a piece of glass or a piece of water.
This is for visible light going through what we would say are transparent objects.
If you're transparent, it means the light stays coherent as it goes through.
So that the waveform maintains its structure.
If it does not maintain its structure, light can still get through, but we would not call it transparent.
You know the word we have for that?
And lucent means light in Latin.
So the light comes up to the boundary.
Some light will get reflected.
And optics people know and understand that, okay?
That happened, you can't do anything about that.
You can try to minimize it by having what are called these coatings that will delete any attempt for the light to reflect back, right?
And it's fun the way they do that.