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  • Ah so my intuition was correct that the laser experiment was wrong, the extra light we see was from the scattered light and not from the laser beam. So if we were to somehow minimize the scattering from the source and just keep the beam, we would not see the light on diffraction grating.

    If we had to really bend the main beam, we would have to introduce potentially some medium where light travels slower(glass/water) to beam on one side of the reflection… in which case the original path would have almost 0 energy and almost all energy has been transferred to a new path.