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Originally posted by Camron Rust
And the big reason for the horn being last...
The speed of sound AND crowd noise. Both impact the perception of when the horn actually sounded where the light and clock are unaffected by the environment.
The light is the most easily used since it is binary...on or off, nothing between, especially if they're LED based lights that illuminate nearly instantaneosuly.
The timing of hearing the horn depends on where the horn is physically located. It could differ by one or two tenths depending where you are in relation to the horn.
As others mentioned, sound is also not available on the replays.
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I think the math here is a bit inaccurate. One would think that you're at most 94 feet from the horn. Sound travels that distance in 0.08s (8/100ths of a second). cut that time in (at least) half if the horn is located at mid-court or there is more than one horn. So, the sounding of the horn
will not differ by tenths of a second, but rather hundredths of a second.