Many materials, such as glass, are transparent over some wavelength interval. In the photon picture, as far as I understand it, this is because there are no allowed transitions corresponding to the energy of the light for which the material is transparent. If this is so, and if these photons don't interact with the material in question, then how can light at the same time be "slowed down", i.e. propagate with a lower speed than c ?
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