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Old 06-20-2003, 06:42 AM  
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Originally posted by Dusen


Your theory was working really well until you said that.

Sound and light are two TOTALLY different things.

Sound is compression waves in the air. If something happened 45 miles away, someone popped a baloon, you would never hear it because it would lose energy as it travels through the atmosphere.

Sound can't travel through space either, it is a vacuum.

But light is NOT that at all. The nature of light has been debated forever in history, but if you are seriously interested, you should check out:

You make this statement but you do nothing to prove that my theory is wrong.
If a bullet is fired at 12:00 and you hear it at 12:03 it took sound 3 seconds to travel the distance between you and the gun. If you traveled at the speed of sound towards the gun at 12:00 you HEAR the bullet sooner but it is still fired at 12:00 if you start your journey at 12:01 you will still never get to the gun before it is fired.

If a bullet is fired at 12:00 and you see the flash at 12:03 the light took 3 seconds to travel between you and the gun. If you traveled at the speed of light towards the gun at 12:00 you see the flash sooner but it is still fired at 12:00 if you start your journey at 12:01 you will still never get to the gun before it is fired. The gun is fired at 12:00 no matter how fast you are traveling or how soon you SEE the flash.
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