• marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s basically all that refraction is. A dead giveaway is that light doesn’t move at the speed of light in them.

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      1 year ago

      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.