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Darren New wrote:
> GIYF?
Pfff. Yeah, and what do you suggest I search for? "Electricity is
somehow related top optics"? :-P
> http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy05/phy05019.htm
> seems to have a pretty good summary.
Mmm, OK. Still not really understanding, but...
> As the man says, these measurements are an average of what happens when
> photons run into electrons, so it's kind of like "heat" is an average of
> how fast individual atoms are moving that are otherwise unrelated.
Well, yeah, but "light" as we usually thing of it is a macroscopic
phenominon too. ;-)
I'm just intrigued by the idea that measuring the electronic properties
of a substance will tell you all of its optical properties...
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