What does it mean that light "slows down" in glass?

Published: 07 January 2024
on channel: 3Blue1Brown
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That video unpacks the mechanism behind how light slows down in passing through a medium, and why the slow-down rate would depend on color.

Editing from long-form to short by Dawid Kołodziej