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03-14-2006, 05:02 PM
DeeBye,Mar 12 2006, 09:23 PM Wrote:I was once told by a physics professor that vibrating air molecules cannot be described as "sound" or "noise" until they come into contact with something that can relay an auditory sensation (ie. eardrums or a microphone).  The way it was described to me was that a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it produces vibrating air molecules, but if someone is around to hear it it produces sound.

Way off base or just a matter of semantics?
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This sounds (*rimshot*) like conflicting definitions of sound. The answer relies on whether one considers sound to be the vibrations or the perception of said vibrations.

All mention of a metaphysical being aside, of course.
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