Not afraid to sound dumb: None of these short explanations for why glass is transparent are satisfying. It feels like there’s some lower-level process that’s being awkwardly glossed-over. The top two answers on Stack Exchange even contradict each other.https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7437/why-is-glass-transparent …
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I know Materials Scientists and Physics PhDs follow me. This is the first result on Google. For why you can see through glass. It says glass is a liquid.
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This is the same as my answer (it's transparent because light passes through it), with the difference that I was being facetious.
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