Thanks for the answers guys, but I still don’t really understand how sound can go at the speed of light, and IMO I think it took a lot longer than we think.
Don’t believe me? Imagine we have no advanced tech that we have today, and across world voice calls don’t exist. Imagine how fucking difficult it would be to make the sound of your voice go at light speed across Earth.
For example imagine you’re at a park with your friend and across world vc’s don’t exist. You’re speaking to each other through the pipe with the two cups at each end, and you want to invent a way to communicate across the world
The fact they did it is awesome. It sounds impossible. And at the time I have no doubt the majority of the world thought it was impossible. But we always think it’s impossible, until it’s invented.
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I always thought that the sound travels at the speed of light but then it hit me that it’s not light, it’s sound, so I had to post this.
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Edit: It’s technically still sound though right? Just converted into something else.
Just because it’s converted into a different form doesn’t mean it’s not sound. It’s just sound in a different form, or it wouldn’t be sound at the other end.
Who was the first person to convert sound to the speed of light?
Edit2: I still think there’s something you’re not telling me guys 🤔😂
Edit3: to the few haters who downvoted my reply to the comment when I said ‘no shit’ when someone compared this to paper travelling at the speed of light, get a brain. Sound doesn’t weigh anything.
Edit4: u/mitchrsmert fr? If sound has mass how can it travel at the speed of light?
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You convert your sound into electricity, and then back to sound. Electricity moves near the speed of light.
Microphones and speakers do the same thing, but backwards. They both convert electrical pulses to sound, and vice versa. In analogue systems, the microphone has a tiny diaphragm (like a tiny speaker) that vibrates with the sound waves, and moves a magnet over a coil, making an analog electrical signal out of sound waves. The opposite process happens on the other end, with the signal being pulses/waves that vibrate a magnet, that vibrates the diaphragm to then make sound. It’s a little more complex with digital, but the general idea is the same. You take a sound wave, turn it into an electric/digital code, and then reverse the process on the other end.
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