• Question: how many sound waves have you discovered

    Asked by jets532gage25 to Rachel E on 28 Jan 2026.
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      Rachel Edwards answered on 28 Jan 2026:

      I haven’t discovered any new ones because people did lots of maths a long time ago and figured out how sound waves behaved. But I have worked out how to use lots of different ones, and built a sensor that might be detecting some types that are really hard to measure.

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