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Absorption and re-emission are probabilistic, so you'd expect experiments to show a spread distribution of propagation times, deflection angles, etc that aren't actually observed. The explanation gets into looking at light as a wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW8KuMtVpug




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