[bottomlander]

Originally Posted by N0B0DY I get the bottom part of your response, neutralino, but if the frequency of oscillations changes the wavelength, how would wave inteference change the frequency? I thought that in variable media, wavelength changes and frequency remains the same. Also, I've heard that amplitude effects velocity, is this right?

One thing we need to remember is that ONLY IN VACUUM (even in an expanding intergalaxic space) the light sped c is a constant and thus strictly correlate frequency and wavelength.

As what you said in a non-vacuum media, wavelength should become longer and thus the frequency should become out-proportionately fewer, so that their product will yield a slower speed. (wavelength x frequency = speed). That means frequency cannot remain the same.

One example is that at least 10 years ago, physicists already able to freeze the speed of a photon to zero. I don't know in those experiments, how are the changes on frequency and wavelength during the frozen period.

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"amplitude effects velocity" seems only when in shockwaves or imperfect waves.

Best Regards. Bottomlander

[N0B0DY]

The first part is true, Bottomlander, but the second is not true in variable media.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...ics/index.html

Do you have an article where light has been stopped completely? The only one I could find is by Hau, and I think the results were said to be debatable. Though I would imagine the wavelength would be stretched quite a bit.