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Possibly "faster than the speed of light in air"
by sdflhasjd 3y ago
Possibly "faster than the speed of light in air"
- dzdt 3y agoOh that makes a lot of sense. That actually makes a nice image for the train-wreck of cascading particle collisions that happens. Air is dense enough its impossible to move that fast thru it. But the particle hits the air moving that fast. Result: fireworks that can be detected.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoRelated effect, Cherenkov radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation