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Why do sound waves travel in spheres rather than in circles much like a ripple in a pond?
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Because they are unconstrained.
That is, the ripples on the water surface are constrained to be on the surface of the water by their very nature: that is, a ripple is by definition a disturbance on the surface of the water.
Since the surface of the water is flat, then the ripples cannot be spherical and they must instead assume the 2D intersection of the sphere which is commonly known as a "circle. "
In fact, "sound" waves can travel through water and these are distinct from ripples. Like their airborne counterparts, subsurface sound waves also propagate spherically -- they travel in 3 dimensions because they can and they are not constrained by anything to propagate in merely 2 D.
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