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Diffraction is what happens when waves bend around obstacles or pass through openings instead of traveling in straight lines, without losing energy in the process. It matters because it affects how waves like light and sound behave in the real world, creating visible patterns that reveal information about both the waves and the objects they encounter.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).
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