I was travelling on a plane (so I’m presuming 600 mph?) and, of course, Bluetooth earphones worked fine with my tablet. Though I guess we were in a vacuum.
If you were outside the plane travelling at that speed, would the earphones still be able to connect to the tablet?
Does relative speed affect the connection, or is the only important factor the distance between the two devices?
In addition, how far would it work in space? 😆
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Planes are not in vaccuums. They are under pressure. If the inside of a plane was a vaccuum there would be no air, you would suffocate.
Both your earphones and your tablet are travelling at 600mph. So when the signal leaves one device, it is travelling 600mph faster than it normally would. Which overall has no effect, because the device receiving it is also travelling 600mph faster.
If you flew your tablet at 600mph past your earphone on the ground, they would receive some connection based on the range of bluetooth, so probably about 30ft-50ft? But it wouldn’t help much because the plane would be gone before you could do anything with that signal.
In general, radio waves aren’t affected by relative speed. Don’t forget, Earth is travelling through space at huge speeds, and radio still works.
In space, there is a vaccuum. No air, means nothing to ‘catch’ the radio waves as they travel, meaning they can go much much further. I don’t know what the theoretical range of bluetooth would be in space.
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