Well according to Russell I'm wrong about that. But wrap your head
around this one - light has been slowed to a stop in the laboratory.
What happens when C becomes 0? If nothing can exceed the speed of
light and the speed of light is reduced to 0 then nothing can exist at
any speed. Does the universe collapse in a screaming heap of
contradictions?

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=11026&site=testing

Cheers,
Zik

On 22/05/06, Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com> wrote:
> 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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