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To: Alamo-Girl; PatrickHenry; marron; OhioAttorney
There was no physical organism to hear that sound yet there you have it - proof that sound exists even if noone hears it.

Great observation, A-G!!!

328 posted on 03/18/2005 9:44:55 AM PST by betty boop (If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. -- Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: betty boop
"There was no physical organism to hear that sound yet there you have it - proof that sound exists even if noone hears it."

Great observation, A-G!!!

Light waves also exist without a human to perceive them. Both light and sound can be described as having wavelengths, which are also objective.

But unless you are willing to assign a specific wavelength to the label green, the way we assign 440 hz as A below middle C, color is a perceived quality, like beauty.

345 posted on 03/18/2005 10:14:05 AM PST by js1138
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To: betty boop
"Great observation, A-G!!!"

And what medium did these 'sounds' propagate through that we would still consider them to be sounds?

412 posted on 03/18/2005 12:24:06 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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