Re: Just wasted $60 on Borland

From: Mabden (mabden_at_sbc_global.net)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:08:16 GMT

"Old Wolf" <oldwolf@inspire.net.nz> wrote in message
news:843a4f78.0410181236.7a705a7f@posting.google.com...
> "Gary Labowitz" <glabowitz@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > JThief posted:
> > > "If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no-one around to
> > > hear it, does it make a sound?"
> >
> > Your youth is showing. Bringing up this old, and misunderstood,
question
> > shows lack of depth.
> > The answer to this question is yes or no. And the answer depends on
what the
> > questor means by "make a sound."
> >
> > If by "make a sound" one means the creation of the imminent cause of
sound,
> > namely the wave produced in the surrounding media by compression and
> > expansion of the media by a disturbance in the media, then the
answer is
> > yes.
>
> I thought this question was meant to be an illustration of
> a principle in quantum physics. During the fall there was
> a linear superposition of disturbance-caused and no-disturbance-
> caused , which was not resolved by an observation, and could
> even still exist. So it is not correct to say that there
> was or was not a sound.
>

I take it as an observation issue. Is the sound the waves in the air,
which fade over distance or does sound require an eardrum that bumps
because the waves hit it, and then a brain interprets the bumping as a
noise.

What color are x-rays? 

-- 
Mabden

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