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March 4th, 2007, 11:01 AM
what would happen if the speed of sound was the same as the speed of light????
What would happen to what?
You would no longer get 'stadium echo'.
what does that mean??
Do you mean if light slowed down, or sound speeded up, or whether they were at some value neither is now?
Stadium echo is where you at a stadium that has several tannoy speakers and where you can hear several of these, the sound from each arrives at a different time and therefore you hear echoes.
i mean.. what if the speed of sound increased to be the same value as the speed of light.
It can't, sound is the vibration of the particles in a medium and they can't move at the speed of light. Unless you have infinite energy I think.
If it were that light and sound travelled at the same speed then all the laws of the univers would be different, and therefore who could say?
well lets just say.. what if sound really did travel as fast as light.. would the human ear be able to ear it and interpret the sound?
The speed of sound is nothing to do with what you hear, [whilst you are motionless] for example sound travelling through steel travels many times faster yet if you put your ear to it, you will still hear the original sound (note though it will travel through air for the last few centimetres. All that would happen is that the wavelength would need to be about a million times longer.
it would effect if the wavelenght remained the same since the frequens would go beyond what the human ear can hear. it would be a silent world for us
Wrong, the wavelength would be determined by the object making the sound,If you waved a piece of card back and forth to times per second then it's wavelength would be 30M metres. - Think about it!
got a point you can see it from both percpective XDOriginally Posted by Megabrain
If you want to keep the wavelength the same but vastly increase the frequency then you'll need to hit it faster, this can only occur if more than the speed of sound increases!
correct
the new relativity have been discovered
The sound energy would become light energy.
NO sound energy cannot directly be converted to light energy, (I thought I just answered this one) - sound is a compressive wave experienced by a material, sound does not exist within itself, it relies on a medium. Light is energy, self contained little packets of the stuff. It would be like trying to convert 'time' into one of the other three dimensions.
oh i see.
And is there any reaction which uses sound energy as catalyst. Seems to be a chemistry forum question.
I am aware that modern explosives 'detonate' that is a shockwave sets them off, this may then produce light but, it is not the sound that turns into light, the sound is the catalyst for the sxplosives. Beyond that it is as you say chemistry, not a field I would comment in (other than some simple reactions).
March 7th, 2007, 06:43 AM
if it is so you can easily go to past and future with an airplane.
and this world will not run as it is now. all the physics law will be changed.
i dont think that it will be possible to survive any creature in this universe.
March 7th, 2007, 10:54 AM
In a forum, no-one can hear you scream.....if it is so you can easily go to past and future with an airplane.
and this world will not run as it is now. all the physics law will be changed.
i dont think that it will be possible to survive any creature in this universe.
March 7th, 2007, 09:19 PM
thanks megabrain.In a forum, no-one can hear you scream.....if it is so you can easily go to past and future with an airplane.
and this world will not run as it is now. all the physics law will be changed.
i dont think that it will be possible to survive any creature in this universe.
dont you think like that?
What about focusing the sound and using the waves for energy? I have played some Warhammer 40k (futuristic war game using miniatures like DND) in the past and there was a race that used sound as weapons. Is something like this possible? Can't certain frequencies cause parts of the body to act in certain ways? Or is that a mith?
Enough 'sound' will break anything, just hit a piece of mom's china with a brick. Striking it produces a compression wave in the medium - that is sound. You can 'concentrate sound waves, it happens quite naturally, sometimes you can move around a noisy environment and the sound can vary quite a bit, even in an open space. Compression waves can and do add and subtract, like waves on the water, intereference is the name.
As to certain frequencies acting on certain parts of the body, most of it is pure myth (not helped by the south park 'brown note' episode). yet again enough sound and things can happen.
No i am talking about chemical reaction which uses sound energy as catalyst.What about focusing the sound and using the waves for energy? I have played some Warhammer 40k (futuristic war game using miniatures like DND) in the past and there was a race that used sound as weapons. Is something like this possible? Can't certain frequencies cause parts of the body to act in certain ways? Or is that a mith?
I think it is not the sound energy but it is the force of the stone which breaks the china ware. Impulse= Force * time.
As the time taken to bring the stone to a stop is less so more force is inserted which breaks the china ware.
nope, it is the compression wave that breaks it, - it really is! if the object did not compress it would simply move. in very simple terms It breaks when the variation in the compression wave is greater than the compressibility of the medium.
yes force changes the shape os the substance. If it is compressive than it doesn't break else it breaks.
Here is an interesting question for you. Lets say a train is travelling at 100mph and it hits a fly which is travelling towards it. the fly cannot simply reverse direction without first decelerating to 0 speed. Which means that for the tiniest fraction of a second, the train where the fly struck must also have decelerated to 0 speed before very quickly speeding up again.
A logical answer that pertains to most 'what ifs'. One can't 'tweak' the properties of matter and energy without everything as we know it being meaningless in the universe.
Whose deceleration are you talking about at the end. The fly or the train.Here is an interesting question for you. Lets say a train is travelling at 100mph and it hits a fly which is travelling towards it. the fly cannot simply reverse direction without first decelerating to 0 speed. Which means that for the tiniest fraction of a second, the train where the fly struck must also have decelerated to 0 speed before very quickly speeding up again.
The train would not decelerate to zero.
I think you need to read the law of conservation of momentum for this.
Maybe it's just "The wrong type of fly"Here is an interesting question for you. Lets say a train is travelling at 100mph and it hits a fly which is travelling towards it. the fly cannot simply reverse direction without first decelerating to 0 speed. Which means that for the tiniest fraction of a second, the train where the fly struck must also have decelerated to 0 speed before very quickly speeding up again.
Im talking about both, actually the train, or at least part of it WOULD have to decelerate to 0 speed as would the fly. Im a little tired so I will explain a little more later.
IF that were true then our fly would also move a building if it crashed into it, it does not, for example when the planes crashed into the WTC the buildings 'flexed and recovered' but did not actually move. I also think if what you say is true the train would have had to decelerate and re-accelerate in almost zero time, think of the energy that would require, and in 'BR' trains it takes about a mile to stop from 80MPH, and about 1.5 miles to accelerate to 80mph - or at least that order.
You could also argue that static air (which also has mass) would prevent the train from ever moving! - ie each molecule of air would stop the train.
March 13th, 2007, 09:27 AM
You would receive you see and hear the very same moment. Right? If light indeed was reflected by
all visible objects and that's the true physical clue therefore all those objects are visible.
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