POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Media and Opposite Colors : Re: Media and Opposite Colors Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:21:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media and Opposite Colors  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 30 Sep 1999 10:29:58
Message: <37f373e6@news.povray.org>
Ron Parker <par### [at] fwicom> wrote:
: The explanation I always got is that the photon is being absorbed and
: re-emitted each time it hits a water molecule, but it is traveling at
: c in the interstices between molecules.

  The speed of the photon must slow down at least somewhere so that
the average speed could be less than c.
  If the photon is absorbed by a molecule, why does the photon leave the
molecule in the exact same direction as it entered it?

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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