What makes light bend?

Answer 1

I believe it has to do with factors that include the energy of the heat, and the temperature change, and how it refracts light particles. There are many ways of disrupting particles. look it up.

Answer 2

Light waves slow down when they go from air into glass. To picture why this bends the light beam, think of a row of people holding hands as they walk across a field. As they go from firm ground into muddy ground at an angle, They slow down. So the first people slow down first, and that makes the line bend. When the last person crosses into the muddy ground all the line will now be going in a new direction. If you understand this, you will understand how light beams are bent when they go into glass at an angle. The reason that you get a color spectrum when light goes through a prism of glass is that white light is a mixture of different colored light, and each color has a different speed in the glass. So the different color parts of of the white light are bent at different angles. The blue light is bent the most -- the red, the least.

Answer 3

Light bends when it passes from one medium to another with a different optical density, a phenomenon known as refraction. The speed of light changes depending on the medium it is passing through, causing it to change direction.

Answer 4

Gravity can bend light. Some prisms and lenses might also bend light. reflections (Reflect light, they do not bend them)