Timeline for Why does a laser beam stay coherent when it passes through glass?
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| Mar 1, 2019 at 15:00 | comment | added | J. Murray | @JJH Glass is a solid - not all solids have crystalline structure. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 11:50 | comment | added | JJH | I mean glass, I'm aware that it isn't a liquid, but it also isn't a solid and doesn't have the crystal structure of a solid | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 11:48 | comment | added | John Rennie | Can you clarify whether you mean a transparent solid like glass or a transparent liquid like water? | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 11:40 | comment | added | untreated_paramediensis_karnik | @Steeven there is a common myth that glass is a liquid, responsible for a thickening of windows at their bottom. I even saw it mentioned as true in a popular condensed matter textbook | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:52 | comment | added | safesphere | The correct answer is here: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/368333/… - Each photon interacts with all electrons simultaneously. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:43 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:40 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:22 | comment | added | Steeven | Glass is not solid?... | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:18 | history | asked | JJH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |