{"id":1276,"date":"2009-01-26T05:06:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T10:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2009-01-26T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T10:06:37","slug":"i-get-no-kick-from-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1276","title":{"rendered":"I Get No Kick from Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>So tell me why should it be true?<br \/>\nThat I get a kick out of you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>gg writes up the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1209\">recent paper<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/467\">Abraham-Minkowski controversy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2009\/01\/25\/measuring-the-kick-of-a-photon-leaving-a-fiber\/\">Measuring the \u2018kick\u2019 of a photon leaving a fiber!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The difficulty lies in the fact that any discussion of the momentum of light in a medium must properly account for the <em>total<\/em> momentum of the system, which includes the momentum of the medium itself.  When traveling into a medium of refractive index much greater than unity, the light is strongly interacting with the material and it becomes almost arbitrary to distinguish between the momentum of the photon and that of the matter: the two are completely intertwined.  With this perspective, one would say that the designation of \u2018light momentum\u2019 and \u2018medium momentum\u2019 are completely arbitrary, merely different ways to slice \u2018total momentum pie\u2019.  Differences in experimental results can be explained away as a failure to completely account for the interaction between the light and the medium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So tell me why should it be true? That I get a kick out of you gg writes up the recent paper on the Abraham-Minkowski controversy Measuring the \u2018kick\u2019 of a photon leaving a fiber! The difficulty lies in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-physics","tag-minkowski-abraham-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}