If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?
Think about it, if you run at the speed of sound , sound waves are steal able to reach your ears, but if you are running faster than the speed of sound you will traveling faster than the sound waves and it would not reach your ears and you will not hear any thing at all until you slowdown enough for sound waves to catch up to you. O, and one more thing, when you travel past the speed of sound “linearly” you crate a sonic boom. http://science.howstuffworks.com/questio… O i just thought a bout it if the sound is contain (with good coupling between the headphone and ears), and is moving in relative motion with the jogger than yes he still will hear his Walkman.
The man wearing a walkman is actually running the speed of light, which is faster than the speed of sound , so the sounds from his walkman would be travelling the speed of sound (their speed) over and above the speed over the lightspeed he himself was travelling, so he would actually be listening to Disco music from a mid-70s broadcast, since the sound travelling faster than the speed of light would be going backwards in time, and he would suddenly flashback to a mental image of John Travolta gyrating his hips, faint in the middle of a busy intersection being repaved, get run over by the asphalt truck and die faster than the speed of light and sound together.
