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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoNo, they don’t. They can get absorbed and re-emitted, and the space they are moving though can compress sideways. But they can’t make curves at all.
minus-squareNeato@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoYes. Don’t think about individual photons. Think about billions of them with destructive and constructive interference. The probabilities of all the sitting l additive waves of light.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThat’s basically all that refraction is. A dead giveaway is that light doesn’t move at the speed of light in them.
No, they don’t. They can get absorbed and re-emitted, and the space they are moving though can compress sideways. But they can’t make curves at all.
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Yes.
Don’t think about individual photons. Think about billions of them with destructive and constructive interference. The probabilities of all the sitting l additive waves of light.
That’s basically all that refraction is. A dead giveaway is that light doesn’t move at the speed of light in them.