It was quite foggy while we hiked up a nearby mountain. We could hear voices from a distance, but could not see the persons. That led me to the following hypothesis: “there could be occasions when sound travels faster than light”.
Looking for graduate students or post-docs to perform research in this area. Must be a proponent of Creationism or Intelligent Design.
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wow you reminded me of my self running in foggy winter morings of pakistan.
Where you could hardly see you own hand if you stretch ouit, but you can hear voice in high definition.
Light/vision is blocked by particles l in the air. Light gets diverted. Don’t make me explain it in detail.
Sound gets a much better media to travel in, better the just clean air. Sound travel better in water, in train tracks in string.
So when there are tons of water particles in the air sound get better media, while light get reflected/deflected.
Now, Can I get my degree please 
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^ this answer was not what we are looking for. Our research program does not tolerate independent thinking. Candidates should support the stated hypothesis.
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Ok, we go really close to a black hole. (you go first :D)
blackhole
|---------| —LS--------empty-space----------->eye
|---------|—SS-------------metal-rod----------|>ear
LS–light source.
SS sound source.
Then we put a long metal bar attached to sound source.
Light travel through space.
###above is the setting for our experiment##
Now when light source emit light, it wont reach to eye because Black-hole would not let the light escape..
On the other hand, sound would travel in metal bar and reach to the ear.
My degree please ?
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In Doppler effect experiments it was noticed light took differnt timet bouncing off the moving objects.
Now we bounce light off on and extremely large no. of mirrors, and make those mirror move away from each other
at extremely high speed while keeping incident angle and reflection angle same.
We can make light move slower.
While we let sound come to sound travel directly. And sound wins again.
my degree please
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light and sound travel at the same speed.
you see light before you hear the sound because your eyes are located ahead of your ears. simple.
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I like all the explanations...quite entertaining...
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We cannot officially acknowledge we had not thought of this hypothetical experiment setting. However, we noted your conclusion is now consistent with our hypothesis. The degree is yours. We wish you well.
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We can no longer put up a brave front. You, Mr. Monk, are overqualified.
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Kaka has been disqualified for the same reason Monk, Ph.D. was - for not supporting our hypothesis. ( though we admit he makes a strong case).
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Some people smell so bad, you can tell they are coming before you hear or see them.
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Some people smell so bad, you can tell they are coming before you hear or see them.
Dear Mr. Diwana, you bring up a very interesting case - in some instances, smell travels faster than sound and light. Unfortunately, this research topic falls outside our scope.
We wish you well.
Sound travels faster than light?
Southie it took you 60 good years of your life to
Discover this
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Bacchi, hum buzurg zaroor hain. Lekin saath saal? Nahin.
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^:rotfl:
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I declare all of this to be heresy and will be reporting all of you to the nearest mullah.
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^:pcg:
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So if someone pharts in the dark, and makes a small noise that no one hears, but then after a few seconds, people ishmell it, does that mean smell travels faster than noise? 