Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Mon Nov 24 14:32:29 CST 2003
Really way OT even for this list, but I just had to share it. Light has been observed (under special conditions) to travel as slowly as 91 m/s (meters per second). The phenomenon of slow light was discovered several years ago but we don't have real-world applications yet. So the next time some smart ass says the speed of light is 186 miles/second you can reply, "It depends." :-) http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-5/p20.html Arthur