Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!jamesp From: jamesp@orstcs.UUCP (jamesp) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: New discussion Message-ID: <8500013@orstcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 03:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: orstcs.8500013 Posted: Thu Oct 24 03:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:08:02 EST References: <353@uw-june.UUCP> Organization: Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:uw-june:-35300:orstcs:8500013:000:970 Nf-From: orstcs!jamesp Oct 23 19:27:00 1985 /***** orstcs:net.startrek / astroatc!johnw / 1:00 am Oct 16, 1985*/ ... --second option: If breaking the sound barrior causes a disturbance, imagine what breaking the light barrior would do! (Yes, but thunder would then PRECEED the lighning :-) ... This is called "Cherenkov Radiation," and happens all the time. Often a subatomic particle is moving faster than the speed of light in a medium (for example, the speed of light in water is much less than the speed of light in a vacuum -- ever seen a picture of a nuclear reactor with that beautiful sky-blue "radioactive" glow? That's caused by lots of alpha and beta particles ripping through the water faster than the speed of light.) Sorry, but a person who likes physics has a tendecy to blah, blah, blah too often... <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> "All that is gold does not glitter; jamesp Not all those who wander are lost." (In real life: James Perkins)