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Re: Light???



Here are some words that "explain" this phenomenon for me:

Considering light as being absorbed and reemitted by electrons
in a transparent medium entails the processes being virtual;
the absorption doesn't have to be resonant absorption, and the
time during which the electron is excited to a forbidden state
is within the bounds of what is allowed by the uncertainty
principle. That is, the amount by which the light is nonresonant
times the duration of the absorption-reemission process is less
than or of the order of Planck's constant.

Leigh