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

Subject: Re: Why doesn't sound travel at the speed of light in solids?
From: "Ditto" <jmc8197@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Dec 2006 11:50:13 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics.electromag
Autymn D. C. wrote:
> 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 is jiggly matter, dumbass.

Apply a pulse to an air-cored coaxial cable and the disturbance -
jiggling electrons - propagates at close to c, even though the
electrons have mass. So explain that then.


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