Zik Saleeba wrote:
> I think it's just a case of confusion caused by a misleading name.
> Nothing can travel at C, and that includes light. In a vacuum light
> travels at almost (but not quite) C. In other media light slows down
> but C doesn't. Calling C "the speed of light" has created a lot of
> confusion, but to a first approximation it's pretty close to true.
> Calling the common name of C from "the speed of light" to "a little
> bit more than the speed of light in a vacuum" just isn't as punchy.

I though light *always* travelled at C, and that the reduced speed of 
light through materials is an illusion due to collisions with atoms.

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