Sound and light; are they both affected by time?

Time as I mentioned is not a linear cause that has only forward and backward directions. Time is a matrix with more directions so to speak. It is time that makes things interesting for us. If we are above time in dimensions, then we will not be able to enjoy our lives. There are dimensions above time which are not affected by time but have effect on time.

Before getting deeper into time, let’s talk about sound. Sound is merely vibration. Rather than stating sound or vibration, we could use the term resonance because not all the sounds really sound. And also not all the vibrations vibrate; but all resonances do resonate.

The sound or vibration could not be observed in space because there is no medium through which the vibration could pass. In other words, there should be mass to pass the vibration. There is another thing in this universe that acts like mass or we miscalculate as mass sometimes; gravity. Gravity should be able to conduct some form of sound; or resonance. Before explaining that, I will postulate if it is possible for sound to travel faster than light.

See, really all matter that we consider mass are not made up of fully mass. Essentially most volumes in the atoms are space; empty space. Only very little volume in the atoms are masses. Even these smaller particles are not really fully masses. They are made up of mass but have spaces inside them as well. When sound travels in the air; that means when vibration is produced in one spot, the molecules in the air are hit with that vibration, like someone punching them. The first molecules then travel in space until they hit the adjacent molecule. It is the speed of the molecule that matters as to how fast it would travel towards the next molecule and how fast it would make the other molecule move.

There is a value for the speed of sound in the air; really? It varies. If there is humidity, dust, smoke or even heavy concentration of gases in the air, then the speed of sound deviates. The higher the concentration the higher the speed will be. Sound travels faster in water because there are more concentrated molecules that make the vibration pass out to the next molecule faster. Also the distance between the molecules is less so that the time taken to pass the kinetic energy to the next molecule is lower.

Sound travels even faster in metals because their molecules are so densely arranged and the exchange of kinetic energy between molecules is faster so that if one end of the metal receives vibration, then it passes out the vibration on the other end through resonance of individual particles in it.

As I said before, it is not all atoms or subatomic particles that are made up fully by mass. When an atom or molecule travels towards another, they only push each other because of the forces they have so that their particles will never hit each other. If they did, then it will be a nuclear fusion or fission reaction. And if we find the exact and accurate rate of resonance with adequate energy, we can split atoms open and make nuclear fission and fusion reactions happen with a whistle in a much more controlled manner.

Back to the sound now; there is much energy lost in the transfer of the kinetic energy between two molecules because they never physically impact with each other. We only consider a metal as a continuous medium for sound to pass but no; even metals are not continuous mediums for sound to pass. Since metals are very good to pass sound, the rate of the loss of energy will be low and the speed will be contained more than it would be in other mediums.

What if there were a medium that was made up of only mass; just mass and no space, not even at subatomic scales? How would the sound travel? Consider having one thousand tennis balls aligned in one line and in 10 cm apart in a pipe. They cannot escape the pipe but they can travel along the pipe. Now if you hit the ball at one end of that pipe, it will move and knock the next one. If you hit the first one faster enough, then eventually the last ball at the other end of the pipe will pop out. Your energy would have transferred through 1000 balls.

Now, if you put all those balls in 2cm distances then the energy transfer will be more effective and the last ball will come out faster in less time than the first instance; with the same energy you could provide.

If you line up all the balls touching each other and hit the first ball, the last ball should get out instantaneously, but it will not. Because of the flexibility of each ball, it will take time until one ball pushes the other sufficiently to make it start pushing the other. This is because though the balls are solid, they have little non solid space inside. This space allows them to squeeze and then expand.

We can take the above three instances as references to the resonance of sound waves or vibration in namely the air, water and metal medium.

Now consider having the same dimensions for the third experiment but replace the balls with metallic and fully solid balls. What will happen? As you knock the first ball with a sound “ding…” you will see the last ball rolling out. This is only 100 meters. Just imagine that you used balls made up of a metal that does not squeeze and you made 300,000,000 meters of a line with those balls; make a straight line. Imagine that you are having a powerful light source at one end of the line and directed it parallel and towards the other end of the line.

Now, if you hit the first ball at your end and switch on the light at the same time; what is the expected result? Obvious, isn’t it? The last ball at the other end of the line will roll instantly and the light would reach there only after a second. Resonance can travel faster than light; so is sound and so is any vibration. The problem is we haven’t found anything that is made up of completely mass and only mass. It is not possible that we cannot make some but at this point I don’t want to take in that direction. I will come to that later.

So, if sound can travel faster than light, then it is not really travelling. It is existence at two points at once. A concept that is very closer to omnipresence. Conceptually, if we can have a material made up of only mass and made a rod across the universe; then sound would travel from one end of the universe to the other end in no time. That is, sound would be omnipresent. A dimension above time and not affected by time but can exist within time. It is not the sound of what we know as sound. It is a form of resonance. Sound as we know it, is one form of resonance.

There is a fact behind the mantras and reciting in religious and cultic traditions; they can produce resonance. A resonance that is formulated in the right way and applied to the right spot at the right time can do virtually anything. What I am saying is, you can speak and things will happen; if you spoke the right way and the right things. It is not as simple as that. I am not saying that you can call an atom in English and it would come to you, but I am telling that resonance can be produced by our own words. And resonance can manipulate energy, mass, space and even the times. That concludes that the word is capable of forming, manipulating and deforming anything, anywhere and anytime; omnipresent and omnipotent.

There is an issue with this postulation. I only suggested a hypothetical thought experiment with a hypothetical element of completely mass made solid. Is there anything in the universe that is completely continuous throughout the universe and acts like mass? Yes; gravity. Like photons for energy, there should be basic building blocks that make up the gravitational, magnetic and electric fields. All fields will come up to a common building block like all energy forms have photons as the basic building blocks. I will get to that later. Now to the possibility of sound travelling faster than light in the current universe; shall we?

Alternation in a field due to a foreign factor is instantaneous. A field does not travel as well; it exists. When an addition or deduction is made, the field changes accordingly and instantaneously; but the change could only be observed in chronological order because the cause will take time to enter or make a change in the field, any field.

The gravitational field should have basic building blocks that are not physical particles that are mass or could form mass; like photons. It is a very different concept where the string theory helps to explain it. I am not an expert in the string theory and I am not going to speak about it. I am going take the common understanding of the string theory as an example to explain what I understand about the basic building blocks of fields.

Let me get into the topic. If gravity is continuous and has basic building blocks, then it can resonate. Gravity does not have to have space inside the gravitational field. If a resonance is able to resonate through gravity, then it should travel faster and slower according to the concentration of the gravitational building blocks; which I will cover later.

Could it be proved in real time through experiments? Yes. If you can generate a vibration to maximum Hz that could be achieved with the available equipments today, we can test it. As the rate of vibration increases, the wave length of the sound will decrease. You have to get the maximum you can to create a sound wave that has wave length in a few nanometers or less. And you have to pass this vibration through a vacuum to make sure that there is no mass inside it. We can use a metal rod to enter the vibration into the vacuum and we can use lengthy vacuum pipes. If you use around a 100 m long pipe made of flexible plastic, then at the measuring end, you can simply eliminate the vibration passed by the pipe in calculations. If we find vibration to travel through vacuum, then it will be much faster; almost equal or more than the speed of light. We will know if it was the vibration passed by the pipe or by the vacuum.

We can use electromagnets to concentrate the fields inside the vacuum. We can also increase, decrease and adjust the concentration of the magnetic field inside the vacuum. Now, once everything is setup, if you start the oscillation of the source, and start increasing the strength of the field, then you can see that the resonance will start to pass through the vacuum. You can simply identify it when the vibration had travelled faster than it would through the pipe or in any known medium. And the higher the amplitude and lower the wavelength of the waves produced, the higher the speed of resonance will be too.

I am unable to conduct anymore thought experiments on this subject anymore. My capacity is limited; I can only think up to my capacity and no more. Nevertheless, if the experiment is carried out, the results will prove that resonance can travel through vacuum. That will prove that if you made the right sound in the right way, it can travel even through vacuum. I don’t know yet to explain in detail, but depending on the factors involved, the resonance could travel starting from one least unit of space per one life time of the universe up to the speed of light and above.

When something travels faster than the light, then that something does not travel along time; it travels through time or in time. Light is limited by its speed. Light cannot travel faster than light. Sound in essence can have a speed or velocity, it also could coexist with time or it could even be above the time dimension. It depends on what the resonance is.

The basic building blocks of time, the basic building blocks of gravitational and magnetic fields, the dimensions above time are interesting subjects. As I said, I will use string theory as an example to explain my understanding of what these are.

I will touch onto the next dimensions and time travel in the next posting. I could have published the relationship between the space, mass, energy and time in equations but it was too early to publish that. So I will get onto some more details in understandable story telling manner before getting stuck into the “scientifically scientific” in the upcoming posts.

I will let you know whatever I had been thinking…