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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(physics)
For most of the history of the word “reflect”, its meaning was definitely not “absorb and re-emit photons of the same frequency”.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(physics)
For most of the history of the word “reflect”, its meaning was definitely not “absorb and re-emit photons of the same frequency”.