Another example is mechanical waves in the solar photosphere : The waves are damped ( by radiative heat flow from the peaks to the troughs ), and related to that, the energy velocity is often substantially lower than the waves'group velocity.
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Russian mathematician Victor Veselago predicted that a material with simultaneously negative electric and magnetic polarization responses would yield a negative refractive index ( an isotropic refractive index of " 1 ), a left-handed medium in which light propagates with opposite phase and energy velocities.