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Soniferous Aether

Title text: Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.

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This comic makes a joke on the speed of light and the speed of sound, and the way in which they travel.

Scientists beginning in the late 1690s would discuss a luminiferous aether to explain properties of light, especially its ability to travel in a vacuum, which should not be possible for a wave. The 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment disproved its existence, and nowadays, this property is explained by wave–particle duality, which says that light can act as both a particle and a wave.

The title text references Albert Einstein's thought experiment where he imagined riding alongside a light particle/wave (which was referenced in 2959: Beam of Light), but with a sound wave instead. Travelling at the speed of sound can be accomplished with a fast airplane, usually military aircraft, however the Tu-144 and Concorde were both commericial aircraft that did manage to achieve the ability to go supersonic, aside from (briefly) a DC-8.

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Ponytail: We all know the speed of light is constant for all observers. But out experiments show that the speed of sound changes based on the observer's motion. Thus, we posit the existence of a Soniferous Aether, a medium that fills the space between us and carries sound waves.

Caption: Sometimes Physicists forget that air exists and rediscover it from first principles.

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This is a test. PoolloverNathan^{[stalk the blue seas]} 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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interesting way of writing quotations xd

hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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