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Do the mirrors have a reflective index that tends towards one with increasing frequency?

I am a little confused about lenses and mirrors. From my knowledge, lenses refract the light and cause diffraction (how can this produce an image, and does it produce a better image than mirror reflection?), and mirrors cause the light to be reflected (how does this produce an image, is there...

That is interesting, I never knew refractive index tends towards one with increasing frequency

Awesome, apparently we do not have mirrors sufficient enough for gamma ray microscopy (explanation from random redditor)

Someone on reddit told me it is impossible to focus gamma rays

Ok thanks again, I will get around to it. From your experience, do you think it is possible though?

:)

Can you sum it up in one short sentence please? It doesn't have to explain everything, just the general reason why its not achievable...yet

Ok thanks, you don't know? I'm lazy

The question was saying that electron microscopes are better than light microscopes because of shorter wavelength used. optical microscopes use light in the visible range. But, why can't we use gamma rays and not view it directly with the eye. So I would say my homework influenced my curiosity

Homework Statement Why? We can use shorter wavelengths than that of electrons to view electrons and more? What is stopping us? Can the image not be imprinted on a plate of some sort instead of being viewed by the eye directly? Homework Equations none The Attempt at a Solution I'm guessing no...

and lasers focus light??

If you can imprint photons on a plate in the double slit experiment, why can't you do it in a microscope? Isn't it the same concept as an electron microscope? (to imprint an image on a plate?)

That is what I don't know, I figured if you could imprint an image on a plate of some sort with an electron microscope, you could do the same with a light microscope, without viewing it with the eye directly, but instead on a plate of some sort like an electron microscope.

ok, but an electron microscope isn't optical. So, what if the light microscope wasn't optical as well, would it work then? And i think the wavelength of an electron in an electron microscope is comparable to mostly xray photons not gamma rays, i think?