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Old August 31st 03, 11:52 AM
 
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Cecil Moore wrote:

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Visualize the picture if there were reflections at the minima
and maxima. The plots would look exactly the same.
Curiousity -- why are you so sure there aren't? The picture
would be the same!


Because the energy in bright ring interference patterns is NOT
trapped between the dark rings. That you choose to remain ignorant
of that centuries-old fact of physics is not my problem.


Seems to me there must be power in the light rings and none in
the dark rings. I am not sure where you get this notion of 'trapped',
but if there is no power in the dark rings, then the power from
the light rings is certainly not in the dark rings.

....Keith