Re: cherenkov radiation

[Brian Rees <brees@lanl.gov>]

I can tell you from personal experience that a video camera will not show a 
blue flash, the instantaneous dose rate during the excursion overwhelms the 
camera.  The picture doesn't recover for a good 10-15 seconds.  Yes, it's a 
rad-hard camera.  Yes it's a ways away.  When you throw out E16 -E17 
neutrons in a few microseconds much of what you expect doesn't apply.

Now, as for the two individuals, I think this would be a great service to 
the country if Al and GW would volunteer, they can certainly talk enough, 
and maybe round two would result in clear winner that more than 48% of us 
could feel good about.

(obviously) my own personal non-politically-correct opinion.

Brian Rees
brees@lanl.gov

At 10:23 AM 11/9/00 -0600, you wrote:
>  Hi Jim,  so are you saying that the blue color is because the radiation 
> is moving faster than the speed of light (in that medium)?  Does this 
> mean that their is a "blue shift'  "as in stars coming at us" that we 
> pick up.  In astronomy red shifts are more commonly known for objects 
> that are moving away from us.  I think a novel experiment would be to 
> have a video camera and see whether or not it picks up the blue 
> shift/light.  Ideally, we should also include two people - one with eyes 
> closed and another with eyes wide shut.  That will certainly clear up 
> this debate.  We would have to interview the people ASAP before they were 
> not able speak.  Best Regards,  Tom
>--

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