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Answer by marsarius for Why does larger permittivity of a medium cause light to propagate slower?

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Yet another way, in terms of an ensemble of oscillating charges, to see this: the overall effect of incident light is to induce the charges to oscillate with a phase delay (because they react) which when added up turn out (Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem) to be somehow a polarization field with shorter wavelength but same frequency, as explained here.


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