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Letter: For the record

Published 2 December 2009

• When discussing the effects of travelling at close to the speed of sound we said that this liquefies the ground beneath a vehicle’s wheels (21 November, p 38). We should have said that the ground is fluidised.

Issue no. 2737 published 5 December 2009

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