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Should i apologise for being lovely.

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Ellie47 wrote:

Sorry you've lost me, who are you attacking now?  If it's me again, I would like to inform you that I am a very shy person, not an attention seeker, have faith in who I am and I am proud of my achievements to date!  My achievements have nothing at all to do with forums!

*RETURN OF THE OP*

Ellie!!! You're Back!!! We've missed you...Thank heavens you've returned!!

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Well electronically I travel at the speed of sound, but physically I am thirteen thousand miles away!  By the way does anyone know if the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light? (*_*)

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Ellie47 wrote:

 By the way does anyone know if the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light?

Does anyone know? Yes, but we're not telling Innocent

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Speed of light = 299,792,458 meters per second

Speed of sound (at sea level) = 343 meters per second +/-

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JamieDelarosa wrote:

Speed of light = 299,792,458 meters per second

Speed of sound (at sea level) = 343 meters per second +/-

Yeah, but which is faster?

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leiph18 wrote:
JamieDelarosa wrote:

Speed of light = 299,792,458 meters per second

Speed of sound (at sea level) = 343 meters per second +/-

Yeah, but which is faster?

Nature tells you that by having the thunder follow the lightning ;^)

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Thunder and lightening are words for the same thing though? :D

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Ellie47 wrote:

Well electronically I travel at the speed of sound, but physically I am thirteen thousand miles away!  By the way does anyone know if the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light? (*_*)

The speed of the electromagnetic wave varies with the material it travels through, but it is nearly the speed of light.

The speed of sound also varies in the medium through which it travels.

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JamieDelarosa wrote:
Ellie47 wrote:

Well electronically I travel at the speed of sound, but physically I am thirteen thousand miles away!  By the way does anyone know if the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light? (*_*)

The speed of the electromagnetic wave varies with the material it travels through, but it is nearly the speed of light.

The speed of sound also varies in the medium through which it travels.

So you're saying, no one knows for sure?

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leiph18 wrote:

Thunder and lightening are words for the same thing though? :D

Thunder is the sound of a bolt of lightning as it heats and pressurized the air through which it travels.

You can create lightning in a near vacuum that makes no sound.

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LOOOL

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What happens if you travel speed of light in your car with the headlights on?

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leiph18 wrote:
JamieDelarosa wrote:
Ellie47 wrote:

Well electronically I travel at the speed of sound, but physically I am thirteen thousand miles away!  By the way does anyone know if the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light? (*_*)

The speed of the electromagnetic wave varies with the material it travels through, but it is nearly the speed of light.

The speed of sound also varies in the medium through which it travels.

So you're saying, no one knows for sure?

Every material has a property known as the dielectric constant.  That measures the relativer permittivity of the substance.  Some material do not propogate and electromagnetic wave.

In a pure vacuum, there is no resistance and the e-m wave propogates at the speed of light.

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Jion_Wansu wrote:

What happens if you travel speed of light in your car with the headlights on?

That assumes you can get to the speed of light in an automobile.

In the thought experiment, knowing nothing travels faster than the speed of light, you would not be able to see where you are going and would likely run into an asteroid or moon.  I hope you have insurance.

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You can create lightening in a vacuum that makes no light either.

I think they are the same ;)

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Jamie thank you. What are the chances of mankind ever travelling at the speed of light?  Or is that too far fetched? 

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Jion_Wansu wrote:

What happens if you travel speed of light in your car with the headlights on?

As you approach it something like cherenkov radiation would be cool.

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Ellie47 wrote:

Jamie thank you. What are the chances of mankind ever travelling at the speed of light?  Or is that too far fetched? 

First we have to travel the speed of sound

(that is, IF it's actually slower, as some want to claim).

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Ellie, the grapevine says that you are a black male stripper pretending to be a woman. Why is that?