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Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by iwr on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @05:58PM (#1938774)
Photons move at c in all frames of reference.
Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by jimfl on Thursday November 25, 2010 @01:46PM (#1940783)
Photons do not move at all. Light propagates at c in a vacuum. A photon describes the interaction of the propagated light with another phenomenon(such as a detector).
Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by juiceandjuice on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @06:09PM (#1938799)
...in a vacuum
Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by photon_off on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @11:20PM (#1939358)
Technically, photons always travel at c. Slow moving light is caused by the medium continually absorbing, delaying, then re-emitting the photon, or by other stuff which I won't pretend to understand [1]. Either way, rest assured that electromagnetic propagation always travels at c WRT any inertial frame.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light

Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by iwr on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @06:15PM (#1938812)
Still, I don't see how the photons would be travelling at different velocities in the same medium.
Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by harshpotatoes on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @06:42PM (#1938868)
They are all moving at the same speed, yes. They are moving in different directions, meaning they have different velocities, but the components of that vector will add up to c.