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Old Wed Mar 31, 2004, 08:58am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally posted by JugglingReferee

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.
Sound still has nothing on the speed of light.
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