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Why when you turn on a light why doesn't it make a big bang like when you go faster than sound?
Sound travels through air when something pushes or vibrates it. A sonic boom occurs when something pushes through the air faster than the speed of sound and the sound waves get bunched up and arrive at your ear all at one time. Light also travels faster than sound. In fact, light traveling through a vacuum is the fastest anything can travel through the universe. However, when light travels through the air, it doesn't push it or form mechanical waves in the air. Since light doesn't move the air as it travels, it doesn't make any sound at all.
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Was the Big Bang faster than light?
Yes, the Big Bang was faster than light. During the initial expansion of the universe, the rate of expansion was faster than the speed of light.
Why you see a distant event before you hear it?
Light travels much faster than sound - about a million times faster. When an event happens at a distance, light reaches your eyes almost instantly, allowing you to see it first. Sound, on the other hand, travels much slower, taking some time to reach your ears, which is why you hear the event after seeing it.
Who can travels faster than a light?
nothing, except for big bang but even that was basically light
What happens first when firing a rifle see the flash or hear the sound?
it will appear as though you will see/hear at the same time, but since light travels MUCH faster than sound, the flash comes first, and then the bang
A large bang caused by an aircraft flying at or faster than the speed of sound?
Sonic Boom
When a firework is sent high into the air do you hear the bang first or see the light first?
the light, light travels faster than speed :) ami
Why do you see the puff of smoke from a pistol before the bang?
The puff of smoke is produced by the gunpowder igniting, creating hot gases that expand rapidly. This expansion pushes the bullet out of the barrel, causing a delay before the sound, or bang, reaches your ears. The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, so you see the smoke before you hear the noise.
Light travels than sound Describe how you could show to a friend?
When the two clouds bang one another creates lightening, the light travels than the sound.... Girish.
What does the big bang sound like?
It does not have a sound , because there was no space for the sound to travel in , the big bang is just an event that made the universe we see these days it didn't make any sound or noise . Answer 2: You have to note that space expanded instantly faster than light (and still is) and sound travels kinda slow compared to light so actually there was a sound in the moment of expansion, but the frequency was too low. If you could be actually there to witness the big bang you won't hear a thing. You can actually download a 100 sec wav file created by prof. John Cramer using a program called Mathematica. Simply put this program can transfer mathematical functions in to sound. So he made a simulation of the sound frequencies present in the early universe, based on data from WMAP measurements of the cosmic background radiation. Of course he converted the sound file in to frequencies you can hear.
Why light is faster than sound?
Light is faster than sound because it travels in the form of electromagnetic waves, which do not require a medium to propagate. Sound, on the other hand, travels as mechanical vibrations through a medium, such as air or water, which causes it to move at a slower speed than light.
Why does the fireworks sound come after a second of an explosion?
The explosion and the 'bang' happen at the same exact time !But the light from the burst has to travel to you before you can see it, and the sound of the burst has to travel to you before you can hear it.Light travels much faster than sound ... about 874,000 times faster ( ! ) ... so the light always reaches you before the sound does. You always see the burst before you hear it.The farther you are away from it, the farther the sound will lag behind the light, and the more time there will be between the sight and the sound. From one mile away, the sound reaches you about 5 seconds late.Rule of thumb for audio is 1 millisecond per foot, it takes about 30 ms delay (30 ft)before most humans can percieve the delay
Would sound travel faster in an oven or a freezer?
The speed of sound at 350F is 1395 feet/second (Oven).The speed of sound at 0F is 1051 feet/second (Freezer).Sound travels faster in a hot oven than a cold freezer.
