Is voice traveling by phone has faster speed than speed of light?

Answer 1

A voice traveling by phone does not travel faster than the speed of light. In fact, it travels slower than the speed of light. How much slower depends on where you are calling from, what you are calling from, and where you are calling too.

For example, a person calling New York from an Island in Hawaii will likely notice a delay of a few seconds when trying to have a conversation. This is because the signal may be bounced around by a few satellites and many communication systems before it gets to where it's going. If you call a neighbor from your landline you probably won't notice any delay but it still doesn't travel the speed of light.

In fact light doesn't usually travel the speed of light. Oh, it thinks it does but when talking about straight here to there distances, light often will get from here to there slower than the maximum speed possible, because it interacts with things such as gas molecules.

Answer 2

The actual electrons that carry the voice signal over the wire or wireless medium travel at the speed of light. The delay that you may notice when talking to someone over the phone a long ways away is caused by many factors. In normal conversation a delay of 200 milliseconds (0.2 seconds) can be noticed. As an earlier answer mentioned routing and switching causes some of this, also added to it is header information that must be added to the voice bits to route the packet. Serialization delay is the process of putting the packet on the wire. Once the packet is on the wire it goes at light speed, just with several stop and goes. Similiar to the freeway in the morning.

Answer 3

This is a good and interesting question that is rooted in everyday experience. Indeed, it appears that sound and light arrive simultaneously when we attend a play in a theater or watch a movie. The reason is that we are very close to the stage or screen and loudspeaker. This may already be different during a concert in a stadium: For somebody in the distant rows the sound of the band and its movement is out of synch. The speed of sounds is approx. 300 m/s (1000 ft/s), while the speed of light is 300,000 km/s (approx.190,000 miles/s). Therefore, the sound arrives about 1/3 of a second after the corresponding movement, i.e. starts to be recognizable. In a theater the time difference is too short to be recognized.

The most striking experience of the different speed of light and sound is during a thunderstorm. Unless the thunderstorm is exactly upon us, a silent lightning is followed by a substantially delayed thunder. Yet both originate the same place and time. In fact, one can estimate the distance of the thunderstorm from the difference by counting .twenty-one, twenty-two, etc.. starting with the lightning. Saying each number takes about one second. The distance of the thunderstorm in miles is the number of seconds counted dived by five. Thus a thunderstorm is a great time to find out without instrumentation that sound is indeed much slower than light.

Answer 4

No, the sound is converted into electrical signals and electrons travel at speeds close to but less than the speed of light in vacuum. Typical speeds of electrical circuits may be 10% of speed of light or lower.

Answer 5

Absolutely nothing is as fast as the speed of light. Nothing even comes close.

Answer 6

no
sound in a phone line travels at the speed of 1145m/s whereas the speed of light is 300000000m/s

Answer 7

no, not even as fast, routing and switching an all that stuff.

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

No.