I know that mirrors reflect light, but how do they actually show us a clear image of ourselves or other objects? What’s happening at the microscopic level to create that reflection?
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When light hits a surface like a white wall, it scatters in many directions because the surface on a small scale is actually *very* bumpy.
A mirror is still very smooth, even at a very small scale. This means the photons that bounce off it do so in the same pattern as when they hit it.
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