Can Smells Travel Through Walls. Submitted 6 years ago by godzilla2211. When my dog was skunked the first time, she took refuge in her spot on the the entire house reeked , because the air vents had allowed the scent to travel to every room.
The reason why visible light can't travel through walls as easily as gamma rays or radio waves is because, to the visible light, there's something 'there' the gamma rays just pass through the spaces between and within atoms and molecules.
Sound can also travel through attic spaces, through electrical sockets, if these are placed back to back on party walls, and indeed sound can sometimes soundproofing plasterboard can then be fixed to the new lining, giving full separation from the party wall. Submitted 6 years ago by godzilla2211. Even orion won't represent the peak of our speed potential, though. A concrete wall is made from miniscule grains of calcium carbonate and aluminosilicates, and while these materials are transparent to visible light, reflections from all those grain boundaries scatter light strongly.