Quote: light is scattered by the electrons inside a piece of glass and new photons are emitted; equivalent to back- and front-surface reflections

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Now, let's look again at the partial reflection … Light is really not affected by surfaces. An … photon comes back up to the detector. It's … [probability] amplitude for all the electrons inside the glass to scatter … come out with the same answer.   Google-1   Google-2

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