I believe the current record is 38 miles/hour, or 17 meters/second if your prefer. http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/light.html
From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTL EMC? In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Ralph McDiarmid <[email protected]> writes: >I think what the researches are claiming is not a violation of General >Relativity, but a propagation faster than c in the upper atmosphere. >(not faster than c in a vacuum) It's not basically propagation in air but in a dielectric. > >This phenomenon can happen in heavy water where an electron is exited >with enough energy to move faster than c in water, producing a shock >wave as a very small packet of light. The Neutrino detector in >Sudbury, Ontario, Canada makes use of this effect. That's something very different. if we has a transparent substance that had high permeability and high permittivity, light and any EM radiation would go SLooooWLY through it. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Things can always get better. But that's not the only option. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
