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Subject: Re: if a tree falls in the woods can you hear it ????

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chris the all knowing

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Date Posted: 13:57:17 09/01/02 Sun
In reply to: socrates 's message, "if a tree falls in the woods can you hear it ????" on 12:45:00 08/31/02 Sat

well, it's all about atomic movement.
if a tree falls in the woods, you can hear it depending upon your distance from the falling tree. (and giving that you dont have a massive PA system amplifying the sound).
say im in my house listening to music, and a tree falls a mile away, in the woods. I wont be able to hear it, but it will be making a sound to my location. I wont be able to hear it because my ears are not sensitive enough to hear a sound so faint as a tree falling a mile away...

I'm sure with a great distance, the effect of the tree's falling would eventually become completely unaudible (as in the distance would become so great that atoms would no longer be moving as a result of the tree falling) to any device/ear.

But think. Every movement you make moves atoms, and those atoms move other atoms, and the process repeats, but the depth of the movement decreases from each movement to the next. Do you think this could on indefinately? Or would the process eventually totally stop. I think theres a possibility that it never does stop. It just keeps getting smaller and smaller, such as the hiroshima atomic bomb, I bet you the effects of its detonation are still coursing through out atmosphere, however it is so silent that nothing is able to hear/notice it. ...However I also think about other movement which could effectively cancel out the movement of previous things. But the movement from beforehand would change the way the movement which has recently occured occurs.

Thank you.

Words from your all knowing psycho.

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Re: if a tree falls in the woods can you hear it ????	my big dinky	20:30:18 09/01/02 Sun