Does using a phone to call someone technically make sound travel faster than the speed of sound?
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It travels pretty much at the speed of light*, but that’s because the phone converts your sound into light (more specifically, close to radio), and that’s what does most of the traveling, the receiving phone then converts these light signals back into sound for the other person to hear
*Exactly at the speed of light after it leaves the phone, but also bounces around cell towers on its way
It travels pretty much at the speed of light*, but that’s because the phone converts your sound into light (more specifically, close to radio), and that’s what does most of the traveling, the receiving phone then converts these light signals back into sound for the other person to hear
*Exactly at the speed of light after it leaves the phone, but also bounces around cell towers on its way
It’s fun to believe it! But unfortunately not. Phones convert sound into data which can be sent via electricity/light. Then on your recipients side reconvert the data back to sound.
So short answer no, but it’s interesting to think about all the ways you could “move” data and information around
It’s fun to believe it! But unfortunately not. Phones convert sound into data which can be sent via electricity/light. Then on your recipients side reconvert the data back to sound.
So short answer no, but it’s interesting to think about all the ways you could “move” data and information around
It’s fun to believe it! But unfortunately not. Phones convert sound into data which can be sent via electricity/light. Then on your recipients side reconvert the data back to sound.
So short answer no, but it’s interesting to think about all the ways you could “move” data and information around
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