>>12536236When the interference is created, that requires moving an electron, so that is the wave equivalent of "absorbing the photon."
The first electron movement creates an interference wave that cancels out the first wave.
And then electric and magnetic fields created by the electron movements as a group pull the electrons back into position, creating a mirror image of the original wave, a tiny but later in time than it would have been?
In effect, the changing electric field ->changinh magnetic field -> changing electric field loop that creates light, is slowed down as it passes through a medium that ties electrical and magnetic fields changes to mass, which has inertia, with protons and electrons