Cherenkov radiation

This is so Cool. So the Nuclear reactor "glow" that is so infamous is caused because particles (mostly the electrons) have a faster phase speed than the speed of light within the medium. In this case the heavy water surrounding the reactor has speed of light about .75c.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNwtepP-6M

Re Discovered My Blog

I have A blog!? Cool.. Well perhaps I should start using it.

On the Road

In the out Side

From a place that is not a place of solid comes my first thought that as much as I enjoy the outside I have this feeling that everything that is me, is in my mind.