I went to your article....it made my eyes bleed. Too brainy for me...Shawn D. wrote:The shock waves aren't on any plane -- they're cones. You simply happen to be viewing them in 2D. There's nothing magical happening here. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photographyTSMacNeil wrote:This is really more your area than mine, Shawn...do you give any credence to the theory of "folding space" for the purposes of travel/time questions? I really dont know what to think about it...Shawn D. wrote:The "bending light waves" is getting over-hyped here, Y'all! Mirages bend light waves, and you can even see "heat" coming off roads in the summer, both of which are really not that much different than the effect of a shock wave -- light bends as it encounters discontinuities in density.
I ask because when I see that SR-71 shot, or Dave's Atlas shot, those shock waves appear to travel across a specific plane...what if that plane can be folded over on itself...or can it?
"....paging Stephen Hawking...come in Stephen Hawking....."
BTW, it looks as if that "SR-71" shock wave photo is a T-38.
I thought the same thing on the T-38...(my very favorite airplane)
