In article <f369a0eb.0204291019.28652e5e_at_posting.google.com>, you said
(and I quote):
>
> I think I am going to disagree here. The speed of sound in air is 365m/s and
> in solid (metal, earch, etc.) it's about an order of magnitude higher but I
> don't remember the accurate figure (boy, how fast can one forget things
> considering that I dedicated more than 2 years of my career in accoustics
> research and many more in physics/engineering), and we know it doesn't take
> that long for our digital data to travel to the other side of the world :)
'sOK. It's not transmitted only by wires to the other side of the world.
There is a lot of radio and optical transmission involved and those do
travel at near light speed in a vacuum. Go here:
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html
and I'm sure somewhere in it there is the correct number. I have yet to
find a science subject that can't be answered in this site. :-)
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Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Tue Apr 30 2002 - 05:43:58 CDT
