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The photon, the particle of light which mediates the electromagnetic force is believed to be massless. The so-called Proca action describes a theory of a massive photon.[1] Classically, it is possible to have a photon which is extremely light but nonetheless has a tiny mass, like the neutrino. These photons would propagate at less than the speed of light defined by special relativity and have three directions of polarization. However, in quantum field theory, the photon mass is not consistent with gauge invariance or renormalizability and so is usually ignored. However, a quantum theory of the massive photon can be considered in the Wilsonian effective field theory approach to quantum field theory, where, depending on whether the photon mass is generated by a Higgs mechanism or is inserted in an ad hoc way in the Proca Lagrangian, the limits implied by various observations/experiments may be different.[2]
nunca ouvi falar desta teoria, alguem me sabe dar alguns detalhes

certain materials have an exceptionally high group index and a correspondingly low group velocity for light waves. In 1999, a team of scientists led by Lene Hau were able to slow the speed of a light pulse to about 17 m/s;[21] in 2001, they were able to momentarily stop a beam.[22]
como raios e que se para um raio de luz

e já agora, alguem me sabe dizer algo sobre Čerenkov radiation? nao tive tempo de procurar mas esse nome apareceu no meio d alguns sites supostamente relacionado a velocidades supra-luminais?
bem deixo aqui uns links que consultei, ainda nao tive tempo de ler isso tudo mas eventualmente vou

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light
http://blog.hasslberger.com/docs/Cahill_Experiment.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light