sound wave
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That was explained as being because the technology used in Australia has a two-frame gap between the pictures and the sound wave.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
As such, one could say that life on Earth as we know it in some way originated from a sound wave.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025
“The sound wave, because it’s so big, can’t see fine detail,” says David Jourdan, an engineer whose company Nauticos has led three expeditions in search of Earhart.
From National Geographic • Jan. 30, 2024
However, in this experiment, the length of the optical fiber was 50 cm and a sound wave extending over the full 50 cm of the core of the fiber was cooled to extremely low temperatures.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
In a sound wave, then, there is no displacement wherever the air molecules are at a normal density.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
