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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: New discussion
Message-ID: <237@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 23:02:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 23:02:53 1985
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References: <353@uw-june.UUCP> <8500013@orstcs.UUCP> <198@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
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Keywords: speed of light
Summary: 

In article <198@ur-tut.UUCP> scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) writes:
>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! 

i'm afraid he's right.  the law reads "the speed of light in a vacuum
is constant in all inertial frames of reference".  the speed of
light in anything other than a vacuum is slower.  read your physics
text.  any introductory relativity book will have it.  from this one
law, all the rest of special relativity is derived.

Herb Chong...

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