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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen by fooker on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:55PM (#49982513)
Are there interesting relativistic effects related to this other than this Cherenkov radiation?
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen by rramadass on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:47PM (#49987893)
Yes, there are. Checkout the "see also" section of Cherenkov radiation on wikipedia which lists some of them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

Here is the relevant chapter from the Feynman lectures, Relativistic Effects in Radiation - https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_34.html

If you ask AI, you will get a list with nice short explanatory notes; check it out.

Finally on a related and very interesting vein, Physicists have even brought light to a standstill in tiny gas clouds of sodium atoms cooled to near absolute zero! See the pdf of Scientific American article "Frozen Light" by Lene Vestergaard Hau from her publications webpage - https://groups.seas.harvard.edu/haulab/publications/HauPubli...

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