It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?

  • Pinklink@lemm.ee
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    No it wouldn’t. Sound is air vibration, which has to travel from one place to the next, static atoms don’t have to actually move to a place just transfer kinetic energy to the adjacenct atom, so it would be much closer to the speed of light. Although probably still (relatively (get it??)) slower.

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      Sound is air vibration

      Sound is not exclusive to air, it can be generalized to vibrations in any media. Whale song and dolphin echolocation are certainly sounds, and we’re almost always talking about them propagating in water rather than air.

      which has to travel from one place to the next

      No, that isn’t how sound works. In air this would be a description of wind, not sound.

      just transfer kinetic energy to the adjacenct atom

      This is actually a good description of how sound waves propagate.