Timeline for How can the speed of light change in the medium when we know that it is always equal to $c$?
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| Aug 18, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | Photon | @knzhou: You are totally right, thanks for your comment | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 23:40 | comment | added | Peter Diehr | The form of scattering within the media must preserve the optical coherence, or else the image is lost -- and the media is no longer transparent! | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 21:44 | comment | added | knzhou | This is a very misleading model. For example, it suggests that the photons are randomly changing direction as they bounce onto atoms (which would make them quickly forget their original direction), while in reality they propagate in a straight line. It also doesn't explain the case $n < 1$, which has been observed. | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski | As this answer comes from Photon, it surely is first hand information. | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 19:37 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | When you say scatter would that be like wiggling back and forth between the atoms as it crosses the medium? I have always wondered if the time and a path like that have ever been compared? Is there an experiment somewhere that has been conducted? | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 19:24 | history | answered | Photon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |