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From: Nick
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00

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Tim Iafolla wrote:
> 
> jl...@internetMCI.com wrote:
> >
> > "John M. Aldrich" <figh...@cs.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Of course, there is no known way to
> > >slow down or speed up a photon.
> >
> > Yes, there is. Hold a glass container filled with water in front of
> > it.
> > That is, I THINK that's a way to do it. Sound travels faster than
> > light under water, so I'm assuming that the light slows down.
> >
> >                                 Patrick
> 
> Patrick, where the hell did you get the idea that sounds travels faster
> than light under water??  It *is* true that sound travels faster in
> water than it does in sir, and that light travels slower in water than
> in air, but light is still on the order of a half a million times faster
> underwater.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH> stop posting to this thread or put it where it belongs.
-- 
-Nick ;:-(

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Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1996/12/17
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