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From: jamesp@orstcs.UUCP (jamesp)
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Subject: Re: New discussion
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 03:27:00 EST
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/***** 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...

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