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I'm not convinced by that. Cherenkov radiation is still light/electromagnetic energy, and it still must obey the speed of light (Causality) through the water,
by scarygliders 6y ago
I'm not convinced by that.
Cherenkov radiation is still light/electromagnetic energy, and it still must obey the speed of light (Causality) through the water, which means it will still be slower to arrive from source to observer at a slower speed than it would have had it been travelling through a vacuum.
- Dylan16807 6y agoYou're mixing up what Cherenkov radiation is. Cherenkov radiation is light that is emitted by particles going faster than the local speed of light. You're not supposed to measure the speed of the Cherenkov radiation. You're supposed to measure the particles that are causing Cherenkov radiation. If you measure those fast particles, you'll see that they will cross a tank of water just as fast as they will cross a tank of vacuum. They can cross faster than a beam of light will.