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Comment by bernulli

> The noise is always pointing behind the aircraft or any moving object due to lag.

I don't know what a pointing noise is.

> Light also encodes the direction to an objects past location, even though light is always moving faster than the object.

Yet the light is never outrun by the object, much like the subsonic plane never outruns its noise. However, here, the (fast) noise arrives after the (slow) plane. In your analogy, that would correspond to the (slow) object arriving before the (fast) light.

parent bernulli 4 years ago

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