how does light pass through so dense a medium as glass or dimond?

Subject: how does light pass through so dense a medium as glass or dimond?

Date: Tue Oct 10 19:23:48 2000
Posted by John Kimball
Grade level: No grade entered. School: engineer
City: gapland State/Province: maryland Country: usa
Area of science: Physics
ID: 971220228.Ph

Message:


Light will not pass through bathroom tissue, yet can through dimonds or 
glass.  dimonds being made of carbon pass light yet graphite does not.  
what is the mechinism of a photon moving through glass??  thanks!

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