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Old Sun Mar 16, 2008, 09:27am
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Speed Of Sound Versus Speed Of Light ...

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Originally Posted by tjones1
I took a trip down to Florida to watch STS-123, Endeavour launch early Tuesday morning. What a site!! Completely amazing. Here's a photo...http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...53&id=31108193
I've never been to a Shuttle launch, but before I retired from teaching, I would use your adventure as an example of the difference between the speed of sound and the speed of light. I've been told that the observation area is a few miles from the launch platform. Observers first see the light of the launch, and later, from what I've been told about a minute later, the same observers hear the sound of the launch. Did you observe this phenomena?
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