On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:29:38 +0100, "Rune"
<run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote:

>Isn't super sonic related to sound and thus invisible to the naked eye? If
>so, I'm not interested, but if not, then I'd be very interested. :)

When breaking the Mach 1, the body generating the sound waves moves
*with* the waves which accounts for some very interesting physical
phenomena, not the least of which is rapid condensation of water at
the wavefront, which can be seen in the famous photo of a Tomcat (I
think) going at Mach 1.


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