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Yes, bent, but still traveling in the same direction.

I've found the answer! It all has to do with probability! Why didn't someone just tell me to look up Huygens-Fresnel principle!? Thank's for an interesting discussion every-one!

Okay, but then surely something like this would happen: http://www.ryansuchocki.co.uk/media/tmp2.jpg

Thankyou very much, do you know of any websites/books etc from which i can learn this second half of the wave theory? half-understanding is frustrating!

But then the entire wavefront would continue to move in the same direction, but rotated.

Why can't a wavefront break apart - when it is simply a row of perpendicular, in-step, waves?

Now, I've asked about this on some other forums: and it seems all people are able to to is repeat what happens at refraction, but not actually to answer the question: [PLAIN]http://ryansuchocki.co.uk/media/tmp.jpg From the above image, why does the first sittuation occur rather than the...