Is reflection of light from a smooth surface because of absorbtion and reemission of photons by surface matter? Or is it just wrong to ask this kind of a question because of wave and partical duality of light?
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No. Absorption and re-emission of photons are interactions which introduce incoherence and images would be spoiled.
Reflection in terms of photons is elastic scattering of photons, which keeps the phases between them, and with no energy loss, so colors are retained, and thus can transmit images.
The classical electromagnetic field is built up by the quantum electromagnetic field with creation and annihilation operators of photons in a complex superposition, as described here.
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