On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:52:40 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

wrote:
Are you proposing that a photon cannot travel slower than the speed of
light in a vacuum, or it cannot travel slower than the speed of light
in water or the speed of light through glass or air?

In any random medium, a photon cannot travel slower
than the speed of light through that medium. In
particular, photons associated with standing waves
do NOT stand still.

Try again...would you believe light as 38 miles per hour?
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/light.html
or at near absolute zero, coming to a complete stop?
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-11/st_alphageek
or used in optoelectronics?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-145405.html
or even faster then 3*10^8 meters/sec?
http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html


Quiz: How fast do the electrons flow in a copper conductor?
Hint: It's not the speed of light.
Cheat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current



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