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Re: DECREASING SPEED OF LIGHT IN A NON-EMPTY VACUUM
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Feb 15, 2013 3:50 AM
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http://physics.aps.org/story/v12/st22
"...even frigid intergalactic space is awash in microwave photons that would gradually slow a drifting space traveler. The friction occurs because the moving object absorbs more photons at its front surface than at its rear. The object slows from the flow of photons, just as a cyclist is slowed by the wind she feels in her face. (...) In intergalactic space, the slowing of a macroscopic object would only be noticeable over billions of years. In a 1000-degree-Kelvin oven, on the other hand, a water molecule would need less than five months to slow to a standstill, assuming it started out at the oven's temperature."
Note that the concept of vacuum friction implicitly introduces an absolute reference frame - one in which the space traveler experiences no vacuum friction. This has nothing to do with the old absolute reference frame based on the concept of ether.
Pentcho Valev
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