Category: Travel
1. Sound breaks the light barrier – Physics World
Jan 12, 2007 — Nothing can travel faster than light… except for sound. This is the claim of some US physicists, who say they have designed an unusual (1)…
That said, light can be slowed down by being passed through transparent materials – by around 33 per cent in the case of glass. Even so, it still zooms through (2)…
Sep 28, 2015 — The speed of sound through air is about 340 meters per second. It’s faster through water, and it’s even faster through steel. Light will travel (3)…
2. ‘Mach c’? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the …
Jan 17, 2007 — For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, (4)…
Jan 20, 2007 — This looks like impossible — and it is. In fact, the physicist has tweaked some scientific definitions. No sound can go faster than light.(5)…
Jan 12, 2007 — A group of high school and college teachers and students has transmitted sound pulses faster than light travels—at least according to one (6)…
3. speed of sound and light.doc
Record 10 – 20 — As a rule sound travels slowest through gases, faster through The speed of light as it travels through air and space is much faster than (7)…
This is impossible, because a sound wave is a fluctuation of moving massive objects, e.g. the air molecules. · And air molecules cannot move faster than the 2 answers · 1 vote: Things can travel faster than light; and light doesn’t always travel very fast.
The (8)…
4. What travels faster, light or sound? – Quora
The answer is light.Light travels faster than sound.Infact light is the fastest thing in this universe known to humans !(9)…
1 answerLight travels much faster than sound, partly because it does not need to travel through a medium. Light can travel through a vacuum at the rate of(10)…
Jul 5, 2016 — Sound usually travels slower than light, but not always. Under normal conditions, light moves roughly a million times faster than sound, (11)…
Apr 26, 2018 · 3 answersLight travels faster than sound even in water. If you are asking why sound is slower when it is in air than water, and why light is faster (12)…
So is there any possibility to construct a material where sound travels faster than Light. Share.(13)…
5. Does sound travel faster than light? – byjus.com
1 answerNo, sound travels much slower than the speed of light. The speed of sound in air is about 340 metres per second. Whereas, the light will travel through the (14)…
Dec 1, 2020 — One such statement is that nothing can travel faster than the speed As in the case of sound waves, the light emitted travels outwards in (15)…
How fast can the sound travel? Is the speed of sound always the same? Do space rockets fly faster than the speed of sound? Let’s investigate!(16)…
6. How Fast Does Light Travel? | The Speed of Light | Space
Aug 18, 2021 — He could only conclude that light traveled at least 10 times faster than sound. In the 1670s, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer tried to create a (17)…
Superluminal travel of non-information — As of the 21st century, according to current scientific theories, matter is required to travel at slower-than-light (18)…
In fact, sound waves travel over 17 times faster through steel than through air. The exact speed of sound in steel is 5,960 meters per second (13,332 mph)! But, (19)…
Does sound or light travel faster in water? As a rule sound travels slowest through gases, faster through liquids, and fastest through solids. The speed of (20)…
7. Ok, so, I know that nothing can go faster than the speed of light …
One can think of this radiation as the light equivalent of a “sonic boom,” that one hears when objects move faster than sound. So, it is possible for (21)…
May 26, 2015 — You’re probably familiar with a sonic boom that occurs when a plane travels faster than sound, which is caused by a shock wave of air. A similar (22)…
Does sound travel faster in cold or warm water? — Sound travels a bit faster in warm water than it does in cold. At first glance, this seems illogical (23)…
8. Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible?
FTL travel is a very different matter. It was inevitable that someone would one day succeed in flying faster than sound, once technology got around the (24)…
May 1, 2019 — 980 votes, 207 comments. I learned recently that a team of scientists (lead by Lene Hau) managed to slow light down as slow as 38 mph using 13 answers · Top answer: There is no fundamental reason preventing sound from traveling faster than light in some contrived (25)…
Feb 26, 2021 — While sound moves at a much faster speed in the water than in air , the distance that sound waves travel is primarily dependent upon ocean (26)…
9. Is the reason that nothing can go faster than light because we …
Jul 20, 2017 — No. The universal speed limit, which we commonly call the speed of light, is fundamental to the way the universe works. It is difficult to (27)…
Oct 22, 2007 — The speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound in air. If you want to compare, the speed of sound in air is ~ 343 m/s and the speed (28)…
10. What are light waves? – BBC Bitesize
Light travels in waves. · Light waves travel in straight lines. · Light waves travel faster than sound waves.(29)…
May 23, 2015 · 25 postsThe speed of sound is inverse proportional with the square root of density. there is no way for sound to travel faster than light.(30)…
Once it reaches the speed of sound, the waves bunch up creating a shock While these particles are traveling faster than light does in Jan 18, 2016(31)…
Sound and light travel at significantly different speeds. Light waves move at speeds that are nearly one million times faster than sound waves are capable of (32)…
Sound is nothing more than a local disturbance whose propagation is facilitated by the collisions between particles; this disturbance propagates in a (33)…
Sep 26, 2019 — The speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound. The speed of sound is the distance that sound waves travel in a given amount (34)…
Proudly wear your “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.” shirt to let people know that it is better for (35)…
Mar 12, 2021 — ‘Warp drives’ capable of traveling faster than the speed of light are Current rocket technology would take roughly 6,300 years to reach (36)…
Sep 6, 2019 — Steven Wright? Earl Wilson? Robert Orben? Gary Apple? Bo McLeod? Brian Williams? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: The speed of light is a (37)…
18 answersSound travels faster in steel than air because of molecules, Light, by comparison, is an electromagnetic wave that does not require a medium.(38)…
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(1). Sound breaks the light barrier – Physics World
(2). Why does light travel faster than sound? – BBC Science Focus …
(3). Blue Sky Science: Why is light faster than sound? – Madison.com
(4). ‘Mach c’? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the …
(5). Sound goes faster than light! | ZDNet
(6). Sound Pulses Exceed Speed of Light | Live Science
(7). speed of sound and light.doc
(8). Can sound travel faster than light? What is “negative sound”?
(9). What travels faster, light or sound? – Quora
(10). Which travels faster – light or sound? | Study.com
(11). Sound Always Travels Slower than Light – Fact or Myth?
(12). Why do sound waves travel faster in water than light waves?
(13). Is it possible to create an optical medium where sound can …
(14). Does sound travel faster than light? – byjus.com
(15). Can Some Objects Travel Faster Than Light? – The Great …
(16). Speed of sound and what happens if you break the “speed limit”
(17). How Fast Does Light Travel? | The Speed of Light | Space
(18). Faster-than-light – Wikipedia
(19). medium – The Soundry: The Physics of Sound
(20). Does sound travel faster than light in water? – Cement Answers
(21). Ok, so, I know that nothing can go faster than the speed of light …
(22). How to Travel Faster Than Light Without Really Trying – Medium
(23). Can sound travel faster than the speed of light?
(24). Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible?
(25). Is there any medium that sound travels through faster than …
(26). How far does sound travel in the ocean?
(27). Is the reason that nothing can go faster than light because we …
(28). Q & A: Speed of Sound and Light | Department of Physics
(29). What are light waves? – BBC Bitesize
(30). Is there a medium in which sound travels faster than light?
(31). What Can Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light? – Business …
(32). Physics of Lights and Sounds for Kids
(33). Why does sound travel faster in solids than in liquids, and …
(34). Speed of Sound | CK-12 Foundation
(35). Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people…
(36). Faster than light travel is possible, scientist claims – New York …
(37). Light Travels Faster Than Sound. That’s Why Some Folks …
(38). Why is sound wave slower when travel through air than …
