Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadomin.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!alberta!cadomin!andrew From: andrew@cadomin.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: New discussion Message-ID: <638@cadomin.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 14:21:14 EST Article-I.D.: cadomin.638 Posted: Mon Nov 4 14:21:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 18:45:22 EST References: <353@uw-june.UUCP> <8500013@orstcs.UUCP> <198@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@alberta.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) Distribution: net Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 13 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! > That's "The speed of light IN A VACUUM is the same for all observers . . ." If you did the stereotypical 'two spaceships approaching each other at 0.8c' experiment underwater, the basic premises of relativity would still hold. (Hmm, 0.8c in a submarine, just think of the effects *that* would have!)