Re: Speed of Light

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

Physicists have been making a fuss about slowing the
progress of a light pulse in a Bose-Einstein condensate of late.
Its speed in the limit of zero extent, can be made approximately
zero, I hear.

;-)
Brian

At 21:58 2/20/01 -0500, David Bowman wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Please note the context stipulated a *local* measurement.  'Local' means
> in the limit of zero extent.  The distances and flight times between
> molecules is greater than zero.
>
> > >          ...                                                    Like
> > > *any* other light ray anywhere else in the universe, if a photon passes
> > > by (or through?) any observer that photon will *locally* be observed to
> > > travel exactly *at* speed c as it goes by. ///  ^^^^^^^
> > ...
> > Or should I invoke the flight time between molecules?
> > :-)
>
> David Bowman
> David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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