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Ben's nonsense

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Paul

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Date Posted: 17:40:04 01/22/04 Thu

You very confidently state your "facts" Ben. The problem is those facts are not "facts" at all. To take just one example :

"Roy repeatedly takes wrong information and runs with it. This includes the incorrect beliefs that light slows down in a solid and speeds up on the other end "

Well, you're wrong about that. I already knew that anyway, but here is an article excerpt from the BBC website which confirms it.

"Scientists freeze beam of light"
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3308109.stm

Light normally travels at about 299,000 kilometres per second (186,000 miles per second), but it slows down when passing through some materials, such as glass.

The team fired a light beam called a signal pulse through a sealed glass cylinder containing a hot gas containing atoms of the element rubidium, illuminated by a strong ray of light known as a control beam."

So there you have it. QED.

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