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10 Oct 2024 23:21:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feeling the pinch yet?  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Mar 2008 11:36:35
Message: <47e53593$1@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:
> Got some references for the light travelling faster and slower than c? It's
> not something I've run into.

Sure.

http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/0691024170/

It's apparently pretty normal stuff. It's what makes hard doing the 
actual math for quantum physics.  But over the course of a couple of 
wavelengths, the likelihood of light traveling at a different speed 
falls off to near zero. It's mostly something you see with exchange 
particles.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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