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I'm sorry, I guess I didn't clarify the question well enough. Actually the concorde is the aircraft that I had in mind when I thought up this question the other day. The two passengers are sitting Inside the jet. Simply, can B hear a yell from A since the jet since the jet is traveling faster...

Suppose there is a passenger jet traveling slightly faster than the speed of sound. There are only two passengers on the jet (excluding the pilots.) One passenger in the seat closest to the back(passenger A) of the plane and one at the seat nearest to the nose(passenger B). If passenger A were...

I've been reading Kip Thorne's book "Black Holes and Time Warps" and was wondering about a couple of things. They're really basic questions that have been floating around in my head, but I can't ask any of my friends because none of them know anything about these topics, so...I came here...

So we're both right...huh, thanks for the answer, friend

I need someone to answer this physics question for me please. I have no education in physics, save basic high school sciences, so I must apologize for this question if it sounds stupid to you. My brother and I have been quarrelling over this all day. He and I were playing the video game...