Here's how to surpass light! ft. electrons
Ah, you know that moment when, on some completely random day, your curiosity gets the better of you, and you find yourself sitting there, lost in thought, experimenting with one thing after another. Maybe stuff like light and radiation, for example. And then, BOOM! You’ve accidentally discovered a whole new kind of radiation. Wait… that hasn’t happened to you? Well, it happened to Pavel Cherenkov , the man (along with his teammates) behind it all. Cherenkov radiation, put simply, is the electromagnetic radiation that is emitted when a charged particle travels through a medium faster than light can travel through that medium. Observed by Pavel and theorised and calculated by Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm , it was the trio who won the nobel prize in 1958 for this extraordinary, out of the 'blue' invention. ( You'll get the joke later ) The Blueprint to exceed light The key phrase is: faster than light in the medium — not faster than light in vacuum . Einstein's theory o...