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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do lenses absorb and re-emit light?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.