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Re: Where is background energy going?

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From: Martin S T Watts
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:38
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bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:

>This, I don't understand.  Ordinary refractive materials don't significantly
>change the wavelength of an incident beam, just its direction (speed,
>equivalently).

Isn't it the *frequency* that isn't significantly affected? I thought that
wavelength changed in accordance with velocity.

Martin Watts.
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From: ucap22w@ucl.ac.uk (Martin S T Watts)
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Subject: Re: Where is background energy going?
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