Re: A89: What's Wrong?

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Subject: Re: A89: What's Wrong?
From: "Kevin Goodsell" <goodsell@bridgernet.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:56:08 -0700
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I'm still confused. Was my earlier statement right or wrong? I said that the
speed of light varies depending on what it is passing through, but the speed
of some particular beam (or photon, or whatever) of light appears to move at
the same speed regardless of the speed of the observer. Is that roughly what
relativity says? A lot of people seem to think that it says light *always*
goes the same speed, but I'm almost sure this is wrong.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Nitrocloud@aol.com <Nitrocloud@aol.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: A89: What's Wrong?


>
>    I earlier stated that the speed of light cannot be changed, but I admit
>now I was wrong.  My dad explained about principals I never heard of such
as
>for light to bend it slows.  Now I understand everything.  I'm sorry for my
>wrong.
>
>    But you have to give me credit, I'm an eighth grader in Physical
Science,
>and athe book doen't go into to much detail about light.
>
>--Nick
>

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