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>BOEREE
When the tree falls in the forest, the sound happens, whether
>there is someone there to hear it or not.
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>RICK:
> Uh oh... The problem with this is that when the tree falls in the
>forest... an 'air wave' happens. It's whether that wave can truly be called
>'sound' that everyone's been stumped on for thousands of years. I find it
>amusing that Boeree can assert this with such confidence.
> It's a semantic puzzle. If 'sound' is the wave, then the tree makes a
>sound whether or not someone's there. If 'sound' is the sensation of the
>wave interacting with an ear drum, then the tree doesn't make a sound.
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ERIN: Boeree is not Zen master? ....my whole world is crumbling...the
horror...
What about Bart Simpson showing us the sound of one hand clapping... I can
still hang on to that or can you mess with that too
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