Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccs020 From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Speed of light Message-ID: <215@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 11:47:48 EST Article-I.D.: ucdavis.215 Posted: Fri Nov 1 11:47:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:19:50 EST References: <198@ur-tut.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 14 > WHAT??? The speed of light in water is much less than the speed of light > in a vacuum???? AAAUUUGHH!! Einstein just rolled over! I always thought: > 'The speed of light is the same for all observers, no matter what his > frame of reference'... If what you say is true, then all kinds of phenomena > would open up simply by exceeding this 'slower' speed in water... Eek! What did you get in physics? Every heard of refraction? Ever wonder why the bottom of a swimming pool looks closer than it really is? This is the kind of "phenomena" that occur when light passes through different mediums. -- --Kevin Chu ..!{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!vega!ccs020