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

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Seven Seas Oscirius wrote:
> The atoms in solids are bonded rigidly en masse with electronic bonds.
> And the propagation speed of distubances in electromagnetic fields is c.

Sound moves heavy protons and neutrons.
Light only has to move much less (~1/2000) massive electrons.

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