Re: ¿Why one cannot push light but just in the norm al direction to the ray?



Good Luck? is that your answer to my question?
Daniel. by what you say I realize that you also do not understand why each photon follows such path along with the whole device.
I gues that you entered to this discussion because you are interested in this matter so you should ask yourself the question that arise from what follows:

get a torch and put its axe parallel to your body, turn it on, you will see a light ray (parallel to your body) coming out from that torch, now start walking forward, the light ray will go forward along with you and parallel to your body.
YOU PUSHED THE LIGHT RAY. YOU PUSHED THE PHOTONS.
I do not understand why you do not like the word "push" because one certainly pushed the light ray to make it mosves forward.
You pushed the light ray forward, of course, normal to its propagation path, but you certainly pushed it, so you made vectors sum with photons.


Ask yourself how that happens.

GOOD LUCK should not be the answer to that question, specially for a person who enter to this threads pretending to answer questions.
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