Re: driving at the speed of light


"Androcles" <Me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3LXpf.860$D47.457@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> "Sue..." <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1135087283.646999.243520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Androcles wrote:
> >> "Sue..." <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:1135078403.216184.289290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> > shevek wrote:
> >> >> http://www.spacetimetravel.org/tuebingen/tue0.html
> >> >
> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_effect
> >> >
> >> > Sue...
> >> Only blue?
> >>
> >> Androclean radiation is much better.
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051120.html
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051105.html
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050916.html
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050520.html
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041117.html
> >>
> >> Cherenkov radiation (also spelled Cerenkov or sometimes Cerenkov) is
> >> electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through
> >> an
> >> insulator at a speed greater than that of light in the medium. The
> >> characteristic "blue glow" of nuclear reactors is due to Cherenkov
> >> radiation. It is named after Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel
> >> Prize winner who was the first to rigorously characterize it.
> >>
> >> Androclean radiation (also spelled Black Knight or sometimes Dastardly
> >> Fiend) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle
> >> passes
> >> through air
> >
> > Air? Ah yes... the region below the Androivissic discontinuty
> > zone. That region where bar magnets are no longer free to
> > tumble at will and corpuscular photons can be dismembered
> > to arrive at there appointed destinations simultaneouly,
> > at the same time, all at once and in phase too. :o)
> > Sue...
> >
> > at a speed greater than that of light. The characteristic "red,
> >> blue, green, purple glow" of Aurora is due to Androclean radiation. It is
> >> named after Androcles, who got no Nobel Prize at all, who was the first
> >> to
> >> rigorously characterize it.
>
> Is that from Eccles-ass-teasers?
> I missed out yellow, cyan, orange, magenta, mauve, violet, and last but
> not least, caceious, which has the remarkable property of all five vowels
> arranged monotonically.
> "Tie a caceious ribbon round the new oak cru,
> see, fix it with a boy named Sue..."

Dennis.


>
> Androcles
>
>
>
>
>


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Simple Sagnac
    ... | Androcles wrote: ... c is the velocity of emitted light relative to the ... hu, e.g., annihilation radiation. ... |> Sue doesn't need to tell Androcles about funny clocks. ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Spectrum!
    ... In sci.physics.relativity, Androcles ... > |> giving a peak wavelength that would seem to correspond ... > Yes, that's what is first noticed from a cepheid, the luminosity ... Increased radiation, decreased radiation. ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Simple Sagnac
    ... > hu, e.g., annihilation radiation. ... > = 2hu, the total momentum radiated is zero, so the source remains at ... > |> Sue doesn't need to tell Androcles about funny clocks. ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: The idea of Tachyons
    ... radiation, but conservation of charge implies that isolated charged ... That was never the suspicion of the dubiousness of charged tachyons; just as with bradyons, the Cherenkov radiation emitted by tachyons are photons, not other tachyons. ... The claim is that _if_ a charged tachyon spontaneously emits Cherenkov radiation, even in a vacuum, then that would lead to violations of the relativity principle. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.science)
  • Re: Cherenkov Radiation false if light is the smallest mass (quanta)??
    ... Tom Roberts wrote: ... Except, of course, experiments observe Cherenkov radiation all the time, ... I think they're recording the rate at which the radiation reaches their ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)