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How might one produce a glory -- a circular rainbow -- in crystal?
A glory is the technical name for a full circle rainbow, such as is sometimes (but rarely) seen from below above a waterfall, or below from above a cloud. I am asking this question here. because it ...
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Are there any crystallographic effects we can see in the reflection of visible light from metal surfaces?
I started thinking about this in a discussion in comments.
One can start by thinking of the reflection of visible light by most metals as similar to the reflection of radio waves in that it's an ...