Re: SCI: Light speed in water < fission particle speed

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Feb 23 1999 - 05:43:21 MST


KPJ wrote:
|Do you claim that light does not go slower in water? >>

It appears as if <CALYK@aol.com> wrote:
|Well, yes shine a light through water and it takes longer to get to its
|destination than in a vacuum, but what I was implying, is that since its going
|through molecules, its path is diverted, Im not sure exactly how, but this is
|what I've understood. It goes the same speed it always goes, its just the
|medium changes its course, thus making its destination longer than if there
|wasnt a medium.

Explain Cherenkov radiation with your model.



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