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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Speed of Light and beyond
Message-ID: <1982@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-May-85 17:55:31 EDT
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Cherenkov radiation results (i.e. light) when anything goes faster than the
speed of light in a medium.  Of course this only happens when the medium is
"slower" than a vacuum (e.g. water at 75% of c) since the particle still
limited by c.
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,orstcs,sdcsvax,ucla-cs,akgua}
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Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,orstcs,sdcsvax,ucla-cs,akgua}
                                                            !sdcrdcf!darrelj
VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA