[Suggestion: Cherenkov radiation effect

[KaelaniRevyruun]

Describe the feature you'd like

I think it would be cool to have, when accidentally irradiating an area, to have the shader/dimming effect that gets applied be blue like the glow you see from fission reactors in real life.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

I was working on upgrading my fission reactor on my minecraft server and managed to accidentally irradiate the area a bunch via moving the centrifuge holding just 2 units of nuclear waste, which flooded the area with radiation and also gave me a large dose of rads as well. While waiting for the radiation to drop, I had the thought that it would be cool if the visual effect was blue, partly due to the quote I remember from some accident or another in real life where one of the victims is stated as saying, "Everything is blue!"

[Jorue23]

This is quite unrealistic to happen outside of water or another see-through medium that is not air. Particles need to exceed the speed of light of the current medium they‘re in and since the speed of light in air is almost that of the speed of light in vacuum, particles won‘t reach those speeds. They will at max get up to 0.75c. Your cite probably comes from water vapor in the air that enables the blue hue to happen. But to make it realistic that would only happen close to the actual reactor were water vapor is present and would probably be gone quite quickly. So idk if it would be worth the effort to make this in a radius a few blocks around the reactor.

[bukowski912]

Apparently Cherenkov radiation has been observed to generate in the vitreous humor ('eye gel') of patients undergoing radiotherapy, which may explain patients' reports of "flashes of bright or blue light." I don't know if the same phenomenon translates to this application, though.