If visible photons don't interact with the valence electrons in glass due to large band gap, then how do you explain the slower speed of light in glass the way classical em wave explanation does? Does the interaction (non-orbit shifting) take finite time to complete and thus slowing down the photons? Or is it just phase speed that's retarded, not the individual photons? We can test these two theories with for example a laser pulse through glass rod.
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