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Re: That hiss

Subject: Re: That hiss
From: Mike Feldman <>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:46:18 -0600
Walter Knapp wrote:

>> About the only true no sound situation is a absolute vacuum.

You ain't seen nothing, yet.


Jeremiah Moore wrote:

> I suppose at absolute zero there will also be no sound, i.e. no 
> molecular movement.

You ain't seen nothing, yet.

> But as we all know, absolute zero is theoretical 
> as is a perfect vacuum.  There's always sound, however slight.

Absolute silence is what happens in the intervals between
impacts of any air molecule with the diaphragm.... oops,
there's that danged moving average.


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