Scientists Find Upper Limit for the Speed of Sound
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Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound:
A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the fastest possible speed of sound.
The result- about 36 km per second-is around twice as fast as the speed of sound in diamond, the hardest known material in the world.
[...] The study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that predicting the upper limit of the speed of sound is dependent on two dimensionless fundamental constants: the fine structure constant and the proton-to-electron mass ratio.
Journal Reference:
K. Trachenko, B. Monserrat, C. J. Pickard, et al. Speed of sound from fundamental physical constants [open], Science Advances (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc8662)
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