Re: How Does Light "Know" How Fast to Travel?

From: sal (pragmatist_at_nospam.org)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:51:18 -0400

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:02:16 +0200, josefmatz wrote:

> Light does know how fast to travel, because there is a refractive index
> and a (complex) propagation vector. Light in vacuum does not always
> travel with c (Index 1). Between a double prism in the tunneling region
> it has velocities >c (also index1) if vacuum is between the two prisms.
> This are the findings of Prof. Nimtz University Cologne. The Nimtz
> Experiment has its mathematical explanation in the makroskopic Maxwell
> equations.

You posted this in response to a post by Retic. Retic constantly spams
the news group with the same messages he's sent before, and he almost
never reads responses. In consequence, most people in the group ignore
all the threads he starts, and many will never see your post.

The assertion that SOL > c under certain circumstances is interesting and
rather hard to accept. You might consider starting a new thread on this.
If you could include a reference -- a link to something online about it --
that would be good, too. 

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