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In my first publication, me, Horace Stoica and my supervisor Guy Moore put some bounds on a class of spontaneous Lorentz violating vector-tensor theories that provide a cherenkov-type mechanism by which cosmic rays could cool off way too much on even galactic distance scales.
The Screwy Universe Sean 2006
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It's the unearthly glow of a mature bluebell wood, the flowers radiating a cherenkov shower of light across the shadow-dappled woodland.
Bluebell woods sbisson 2004
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