Recently had a zoom chat with my cousin in US (I am in India). Still blown away by the fact that millions of bits of video and sound data can travel across half the planet in seconds. How is it possible?
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Not the answer sorry BUT I remember a question to this similar in my high school science class once.
It was something along the line of:
A chap stands in london, within eye sight of Big Ben – it’s new years eve at 11:59. it hits midnight and Big Ben “bongs” away. There is a microphone near big ben [close than the man] which transmits the noise around the world for television. In this example, the sound was being broadcast in Australia.
Because of the way data travels compared to the sound waves themselves, the people watching TV/listening on Radio in Australia would hear the ringing first before the man on the bridge just a few hundred feet away from big ben itself [who is listening to the sound waves echoing through the air].
not sure if that is true/accurate, but the example seemed similar to this question
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