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Old 18-05-2011, 06:27 PM
Barrykgerdes
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This is way out of my field but I think you need to forget about photons hitting a diferent media and look at it as an electromagnetic radiation (wavefront) that has its phase delayed (or leads) as it enters the new media this gives a change in direction but not a change in speed.

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