• Faresh@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    But then that means what we see has nothing to do with breaking the speed of sound. So is the only relation between the distortion and breaking the sound barrier the fact that one needs to be quite fast for both?

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      1 year ago

      Yes, in the sense that you already get a weaker version of this effect below the sound barrier. You don’t need to break it to see them.