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Why doesn't sound travel at the speed of light in solids?

Subject: Why doesn't sound travel at the speed of light in solids?
From: "Seven Seas Oscirius"
Date: 30 Dec 2006 02:24:32 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics.electromag
The atoms in solids are bonded rigidly en masse with electronic bonds.
And the propagation speed of distubances in electromagnetic fields is c.


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