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im3w1l
on Sept 15, 2017
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Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
What about walls? And how would you target only one room in a hotel? Multiple intersecting beams?
jm6
on Sept 15, 2017
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This not possible with sound waves. EM yes because they work in magic extra-dimensional ether that no one has explained yet. But sound needs an uninterupted physical medium to propagate.
amaranth
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No ether, no magic, no extra dimensions, just radiation. Check out
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae175.cfm
for an explanation of how it can pass through walls and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
if you want to know why we know there isn't an aether/ether and how things work without it.
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