Tree/forest Question...(was Re: Can God...)

George Rimel (grimel@ibm.net)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:36:25 -0400


Bill Clifton wrote:
>> One needs to clarify what sound is, as opposed to energy.
>If there is nothing there to translate this energy back to an audible input then
> "sound" was not produced. The energy was produced, the potnetial was
> there, but sound is not the energy wave in air but the responce of an
> organism to this energy. So the answer is no sound was produced only
> energy.

Sound is a longitudinal wave (P-Wave) created by compression and
expansion of gas molecules in the propagation medium (such as Air). Any
action which compresses or expand a gas creates sound waves.

I found a physics dictionary on the WWW :0  Now, I definitly don't have
enough time in my day.

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In the begining God said BANG! and it was BIG