How would be light reflection-refraction explained supposing Newton was true in its corpuscular nature?

Answer 1

Well, Newton itself proposed that photons went changing betwen two states, one for reflection and another one for refraction. ¿But what would it mean exactly?

Perhaps in the reflection state the photon would "feel" a repulsive interaction about matter, while in the refraction state it would be attractive. ¿But how to avoid photons interacting randomly with any near particle or nucleus scattering themselves through the glass or the prysma?

The answer to this could be that this "photonic interaction" only can interact over photons that have a speed below a maximum. This maximum would go increasing with distance respect to the originary particle of the interaction. This way only the atomic nucleus at certain distances would interact with the photon, in a way similar to gravity or its oposite.

When a photon came near enough to the glass surface (a change of density) it would "feel" a force of attraction or repulsion. In the first case it would penetrate the glass surface and in short it would be "flying" enough in its interior to feel a total force of 0 (in spite of changing state). In the second case of repulsion the photon would be reflected with the correct angle to the normal.

Here I don't speak about the direct interaction with atoms and electrons. But I read somewhere that also reflection/refraction was a quantic process of absortion/emission, in wich I cannot agree in any way. An atom or electron alone "doesn't know anything" about the place that it occupies in the glass surface and its orientation with respect to its normal. So, ¿how could it emit the corresponding photon in the correct direction in reflection or refraction? You can never suppose intelligence in particle interaction.

About the prysma effect with different colors it's more difficult. According to the above hypotesis it should be because of photons having different inertia or speed. Because they are supposed to have in vacuum the same speed (in spite of Newton thought) they should have a different very small "mass". Mass in respect to the photonic interaction proposed. Whether it should be considered an extension of gravity force into short distances I don't know.

Could it be the speed of this change of state what defines photon frequency who knows. Also it could be possible that in fact there was some very small difference in speed between different frequency photons (explaining prysma effect).

Lowest speed in glass could be explained by some temporary time slow down effect of the interaction (overmost with higher frequencies). This could also explain why blue light bends more in the prysma surface in spite of having the same c speed in vacuum.

I know assuming this hypothesis is very imaginative and contrary to the main believe but...

X

For something to exist it has to be "simulatable" with enough CPU and memory