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Wormhole question, just wondering ?
Could you consider a telephone to be a wormhole for the speed of sound?
7 Answers
- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
Not a wormhole, per se... but a telephone COULD be called audio HYPERSPACE!
Hyperspace in popular science fiction is an alternate form of reality- a higher dimension, or conversion of states that allows star ships to travel faster than the speed of light, because that rule/limit does not apply in Hyperspace.
So sound waves coming from your mouth have a maximum speed of the speed of sound. but, at the microphone of the phone, the waves get converted into electrical signals, that has the limit of the speed of light- rather than sound. thus that sound is how in a "hyper space" of electronic signal- and can now zip along much faster than normal audio waves- without breaking any laws of physics. At the end it gets reconverted back to audio waves at the other phones earpiece-
- and effectively, the sound just had a trip though its own version of Hyperspace- and the Hyper drive was a telephone and some electronics.
And Jimmy Hendrix feedback howl is a cascading Hyperspace anomoly- doing the star spangled banner.
- By the OceanLv 610 years ago
No, because the signal will come out of the other end of the phone line, it won't with a proverbial wormhole.
- Anonymous10 years ago
i would say no.
if you watch stargate sg-1 a wormhole is a connection between two points. a entrance and an exit. the wormhole takes you apart particle by particle and converts your matter into energy and sends you down the vortex at the speed of light. and at the other end it reassembles you and converts you back into matter
- Anonymous10 years ago
The speed of the signal down a telephone line travels at the speed of light minus the velocity factor of that medium (copper) which is slowed by .95%. (600 Ohm feeder).
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- 10 years ago
No. I think that the reason why we hear sounds from telephones is because of data streams or electrical signals or something like that.
- gintableLv 710 years ago
No...just no.
Sound is no longer sound when it moves through the phone wires. It is a modulated electronic signal, a data stream.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Wormholes DO NOT EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is NO evidence leading anywhere near the possibility of worm holes existing. They are like Unicorns, Pretty Ideas.