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When two beams of light coming from opposite directions meet do they converge?
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∙ 16y ago
light is nothing but a part of the electromagnetic spectrum..all EM radiations travel in the form of waves...so ,when two light radiations are considered, they interfere with each other to form a new wave with a different frequency...the interference can be constructive or destructive depending upon the phase angle with which the rays interfere.
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∙ 13y agoThe classical physics answer is No. Parallel light rays, normal to the mirror's curve, will not reflect across each other.
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Applying Huygens-Fresnel Principle (HFP) and Huygens construction all light signals will cross each other (light 'rays' is a simplistic misnomer) as the schrodinger 'sphere' surface expands from each point (via atomic scattering). But using the Ewald-Oseen Extinction Theorem (of destructively interfering waves), the only vectors observed (on the time averaged poynting vector, normal (perpendicular) to the wavefront), will not cross.
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