Why if someone is shouting you can hear it from hundreds of meters but if you were next to them you could hear them but not feel the air moving but you can feel a fan if you’re close to it but you cannot hear it from far away?
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It’s similar to the difference between a tide and a wave. In a wave the water doesn’t move long distances, but the pattern (the wave shape) does. In a tide there is no pattern, the entire body of water moves a long distance.
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