My guess is they meant that If assuming a photon already travels at the speed of light, given that it’s inside a radiation and magnetic field accelerating it, it technically goes faster than the speed of light, relative to us and sensors observing it, which might explains the color change.
The LHC does the same with protons and heavy ions (with a massive magnetic field), but we can’t see it since it’s inside a vacuum loop.
My guess is they meant that If assuming a photon already travels at the speed of light, given that it’s inside a radiation and magnetic field accelerating it, it technically goes faster than the speed of light, relative to us and sensors observing it, which might explains the color change.
The LHC does the same with protons and heavy ions (with a massive magnetic field), but we can’t see it since it’s inside a vacuum loop.
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