Re: Lightspeed constant... (why isn't this on a more relevant newsgroup)

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From: Cisco
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00

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Paul C. DeLong <pde...@superlink.net> wrote in article
<32B632...@superlink.net>...
> jl...@internetMCI.com wrote:
> > 
> > "John M. Aldrich" <figh...@cs.com> wrote:
> >
<<SNIP>>
 
> "effectively" go slower in a medium.  That's because according to the
> model, where any given material is made-up of a collection of molecules,
> the light entering one side of a material gets absorbed and re-emitted
> many times successively by many of the molecules in-between before
> finally making its way out the opposite side.  This is what slows down
> the transmission, because there is a small time between the time when a
> molecule absorbs a photon (particle of light) and when it re-emits it. 
<<SNIP>>> -- 
> Catcha' later,
> Paul.                             -
>                     
Will not this change the property of incoming light???
I understand that Absorption and Re-emission is specific property 
and is used in spectroscopy to identify material.

Pratap

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From: "Cisco" <prs...@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant... (why isn't this on a more relevant newsgroup)
Date: 1996/12/18
Message-ID: <01bbed26$4175cd00$bad044ab@prsingh-pc.cisco.com>
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