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

[Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>]

 "Seven Seas Oscirius" <brightice2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The atoms in solids are bonded rigidly en masse with electronic bonds.
> And the propagation speed of distubances in electromagnetic fields is c.


  See: 
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Ultrasonics/CalibrationMeth/thompsongray.htm

  And: "Acoustic Fields and Waves in Solids, Vol I & II" by B.A. Auld, 2nd 
edition
        (February 1990), Krieger Publishing Company; ISBN: 089874783X