Timothy R. Cook scribis news:3BF8DB9D.E7FA7611@scifi-fantasy.com:

> Because it DOES go slower through the object.  The line is
> 'nothing travels faster than the speed of light *in a vaccuum*'.
> If you pass the light through an object, it isn't going as
> fast as in vaccuum.

I had read of ceasium(sp?) gass heated to a certian high temprature that 
has an IOR of less than 1. i.e. light traveles faster than the speed of
light in a vacuum. I havent seen this article disputed yet either. So maybe 
it is true.

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G^is poste,
Arto

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