Re: Speed of Light article

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Paul O. Johnson wrote:
> I dunno, Ken. I think you'll have to admit to your colleagues that
> physicists don't yet completely understand Mother Nature.

I wonder if the "tail" is just light which essentially missed all the
electrons in a piece of transparent material, material which might be
upstream from the experiment.  If a pulse is sent through glass,
supposedly there is always a bit of light which is not slowed down by the
refractive power of the medium. For such a "tail" to outpace the pulse by
60ft, wouldn't the optical path through the transparent medium need to be
lots longer than 60ft?


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