Posted by Rick Denney on September 11, 2003 at 15:52:13:
In Reply to: Re: The biggest BAT posted by Dan Schultz on September 10, 2003 at 21:37:19:
In the report I heard, the astronomer described it as a pressure wave, which is, in fact, sound in the normal sense.
I'm just trying to imagine what sort of pressure wave it takes to make a molecule bounce off its neighbor a meter away (or more like a million meters or a million billion meters away because of the liklihood of missing most of them). More molecules in a given space means higher pressure, but a wave requires them to bounce off each other.
Rick "no physicksist but wondering if sound and light have the same thing at the quantum level" Denney