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Light has both particle and wave properties, so it is not reasonable to compare light to sound as you have done. Furthermore, light can "travel" through a void, a vacuum--whereas sound has to be transmitted through some physical medium. The speed of sound is not a constant, it depends upon the material through which it is transmitted.

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ELVES COULD HEAR Q Mr. Green

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Is your response attributable to you lack of a command of the English language . . . or are you just goofy?

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

Is your response attributable to you lack of a command of the English language . . . or are you just goofy?

Or, a third possibility is that you are not currently in control of your senses due to drinking / using certain substances?

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iF SOUND WERE ANY FASTER WE WOULD BE DEAF TO ELVES Laughing

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@Pepijn Sweep,

how about the Orcs ? Mr. Green

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@Fil Albuquerque,

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@Pepijn Sweep,

not again...

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@Region Philbis,

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@Reyn,

I see that you got to know setanta very well, is she not a character?

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@reasoning logic,

I 'VE GOT THIS FEELING ... LETZ LIFE IT UP!

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Physics hasn't been considered a field of philosophy for a very long time now.

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@Setanta,

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The speed of sound is not a constant, it depends upon the material through which it is transmitted.

I just have to correct this. The speed of light also depends upon the material through which it is transmitted.

The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. Light travels slower (often considerably slower) though matter. If this weren't true, then light wouldn't be bent by glass, meaning lenses and prisms wouldn't work.

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@maxdancona,

maxdancona wrote:

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Light travels slower (often considerably slower) though matter. If this weren't true, then light wouldn't be bent by glass, meaning lenses and prisms wouldn't work.

And you wouldn't see the blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in pools of water with reactor fuel rods at the bottom.

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@contrex,

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And you wouldn't see the blue glow of Cherenkov
And you wouldn't see the blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in pools of water with reactor fuel rods at the bottom.

I doubt many of us have seen the blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in pools of water with reactor fuel rods at the bottom.

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@Pepijn Sweep,

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Why is Light Quicker than Sound <?>

Because sound is slower than lite.

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@maxdancona,

maxdancona wrote:

I doubt many of us have seen the blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in pools of water with reactor fuel rods at the bottom.

But many of us know about it from books and pictures. (rolls eyes) I have know about it since the age of 9 approx (around 1961)

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Why is Light Quicker than Sound <?> XXX

because it's hard to cue up a record in the dark

somebody turn the lights on, all that scratchin' is makin' me itch

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light does not need a medium in order to reach out , into

sound needs a medium , such as air

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