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According to my knowledge and understanding of things, mirrors reflect light perfectly because they are almost perfectly flat, or at least uniformly flat at most places.
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But if all matter is composed of atoms, then a mirror would not be flat and would look like this (_ and \ are light rays)
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therefore light would not reflect perfectly, and mirrors would just look like a white surface.
But this is obviously not the case. Why? What am I misunderstanding?
Thanks in advance.
(\ and / are light rays)
__\/__
But if all matter is composed of atoms, then a mirror would not be flat and would look like this (_ and \ are light rays)
)
)_
)\
therefore light would not reflect perfectly, and mirrors would just look like a white surface.
But this is obviously not the case. Why? What am I misunderstanding?
Thanks in advance.