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Subject: Sound waves in vacuum

Date: Tue Feb 23 11:55:48 1999
Posted by Etienne Szekely
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Rossland State/Province: B.C. Country: Canada
Area of science: Physics
ID: 919792548.Ph
Message:

Traditional experiments on sound waves in a vacuum have suggested
that sound waves do not travel. 
Howvever, since pressure waves cannot propagate from a low 
pressure area to a higher pressure area, would it not be possible 
that we are just unable to register anything, being on the 
outside the vacuum?
I would also like to know if any experiments have studied the  
ultrasonic waves in vacuum.

Etienne Szekely


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