source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 05:48:14 +0200 Subject: From Gary Morrison re Relativistic effects From: John Chalmers Date: Sun, 6 Jul 97 14:25:58 CDT From: Gary Morrison To: non12@deltanet.com Subject: [cf-lab] - Re: Relativistic Effects Upon Music John - would you mind forwarding this on to the list, since I'm here at work all day? Thanks! ------------------------------- > 2. Doppler effect at near the speed of light would turn KHz-range sound > frequencies into either the millihertz or Gigahertz range, either of which > is obviously FAR beyond any human's ability to hear. Oh. Actually the millihertz case would never happen, since that would be the receding scenario, and obviously, traveling at roughly mach 85 (in that example), the sound would clearly never catch up with you! More importantly though, I accidentally applied the meter-to-kilometer conversion factor backward. The speed at which relativistic effects would be about 1 millionth of a percent is about 65 THOUSAND (not billion) miles per hour. (Ooops) That speed is somewhat faster than the typical reentry speed of a meteorite. So you'd burn up in a matter of seconds rather than nanoseconds. end fwd --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:45 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06151; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:46:06 +0200 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:46:06 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06146 Received: (qmail 686 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1997 05:46:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 1997 05:46:01 -0000 Message-Id: <199707070544.XAA24434@freenet.uchsc.EDU> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu