Meanings
nounScharnhorst effect (plural Scharnhorst effects)
plural Scharnhorst effects
- natural sciencesA hypothetical phenomenon in which light signals travel slightly faster than lightspeed between two closely spaced conducting plates.
Origin
First predicted in a 1990 paper by Klaus Scharnhorst.
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