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Is it possible for a sound to break the sound barrier? Why or why not and if it can, what would happen?
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So if you put a cannon on the back of a car going 50 mph and fire the cannonball out going going 50mph, the cannonball would just drop. Now if you put that cannon on the front of the car and fired it while the car was going 50mph, ignoring wind resistance, the cannon ball would then be going 100mph. I think.
So if you put a speaker on the front of a jet and the jet went fast enough to break the sound barrier then you turned on the speaker. Would the sound move forward faster than the speed of sound or is it it always a constant and the sound waves would just immediately collapse and trail behind?
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