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  • I expect Cherenkov is right, but it would be nice to think he, or some part of him is someplace better.

    A Spiritual Question From An Atheist « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The IceCube Observatory is designed to detect a blue light, called Cherenkov radiation, created by the nuclear reactions of individual neutrinos crashing into ice atoms.

    Gizmodo Neal Ungerleider - Fast Company 2010

  • The IceCube Observatory is designed to detect a blue light, called Cherenkov radiation, created by the nuclear reactions of individual neutrinos crashing into ice atoms.

    Gizmodo Neal Ungerleider - Fast Company 2010

  • The American nuclear power has long been green with envy or should that be blue, like Cherenkov radiation? as it gazed longingly at countries that didn't regulate nuclear reactors as carefully as the United States - countries like ... well, like Japan.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Fukushima USA: Hell or High Water RJ 2011

  • The American nuclear power has long been green with envy or should that be blue, like Cherenkov radiation? as it gazed longingly at countries that didn't regulate nuclear reactors as carefully as the United States - countries like ... well, like Japan.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Fukushima USA: Hell or High Water RJ 2011

  • What Cherenkov does not seem to understand is that proof is not required to believe.

    A Spiritual Question From An Atheist « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • This wave is the visible Cherenkov light, the spooky radiation glow that you might have seen from the water around nuclear reactors or storage of radioactive materials.

    Archive 2008-10-01 x00c5;ka 2008

  • As people like to point out Cherenkov radiation is analogous to a sonic boom, but I suspect most people don't think enough about sonic booms for this to be very helpful.

    Archive 2008-10-01 x00c5;ka 2008

  • The flash of blue the author is talking about is Cherenkov light.

    Archive 2008-10-01 x00c5;ka 2008

  • As people like to point out Cherenkov radiation is analogous to a sonic boom, but I suspect most people don't think enough about sonic booms for this to be very helpful.

    Cherenkov blue x00c5;ka 2008

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